MoMA presents a full-scale retrospective of Sarah Maldoror (1929–2020), the first of its kind in North America, celebrating the pioneering French filmmaker whose work gave voice to the anti-colonial independence movements of Angola and Guinea-Bissau; who observed the rich cultural traditions of carnival, music, and poetry in Martinique, Haiti, Guyana, and Cape Verde, as well […]
Pan-Africanism, first named and theorized around 1900, is commonly regarded as an umbrella term for political movements that have advanced the call for both individual self-determination and global solidarity among peoples of African descent. It has yet to be fully examined as a worldview that takes its force from art and culture. As the first […]
The season of films Sarah Maldoror. An Alternative Identity responds to the need to network with the city’s institutions to develop a de-localised programme and the desire to highlight a pioneer of African film like Sarah Maldoror, who left us a wonderful legacy on the subject of negritude. The season sets out to revisit Maldoror’s work, as […]
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