Name: Screening: La femme au couteau & Selbé et tant d'autres
Start: 2023-06-03T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-06-03T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Raven Row

Screening: La femme au couteau & Selbé et tant d'autres

Raven Row

A screening of 'La Femme au Couteau' & 'Selbé et tant d'autres', introduced by Aboubakar Sanogo

<h1>Introduction to both films by Aboubakar Sanogo</h1><h1></h1><h1><em></em></h1><h1><em>La femme au couteau [The Woman with the Knife]</em></h1><h1>Dir. Timité Bassori, 1969</h1><h2>Ivory Coast</h2><p></p><p>A young intellectual from the Ivory Coast, played by director Timité Bassori, is traumatised by an overly strict upbringing in Africa. When he returns home after a long period in Europe, he has to readjust to his society and to his new sexual freedom – a psychological conflict made manifest by the recurring appearance of a knife-wielding woman.</p><p></p><h1><em>Selbé et tant d’autres [Selbé: One Among Many]</em></h1><h1>Dir. Safi Faye, 1983</h1><h2>Senegal</h2><h2></h2><p>In focusing on the daily life of a Senegalese village woman, <em>Selbé et tant d’autres</em> examines the economic and social roles expected of rural African women. Selbé has the responsibility of providing for a large family while her husband searches unsuccessfully for work in a neighbouring town. Like the other unemployed men of the village, he is dependent on his partner for food and shelter.</p><p></p><p>Images: <em>La femme au couteau [The Woman with the Knife]</em>, 1969 (dir. Timité Bassori). Courtesy Cineteca di Bologna. Safi Faye, <em>Selbé et tant d’autres</em>, 1983. Courtesy of Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. &amp; Safi Faye</p>

<h1>B﻿iographies</h1><h1></h1><h1>A﻿boubakar Sanogo</h1><p><strong>Aboubakar Sanogo</strong> is an Associate Professor in Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include African cinema, Afro-diasporic cinema, documentary film and media, transnational and world cinema, film archiving and film heritage, colonial cinema, postcolonialism, race and cinema and the relationship between film form, history and theory. His writings have appeared in Cinema Journal, Framework, Moving Image Review &amp; Art Journal, Rethinking History, Journal of Film Preservation, Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, Film Comment and the Journal of African Cinemas. He is currently completing two manuscripts on the history of documentary in Africa and on the cinema of Med Hondo and an anthology on the legendary director. He has curated film programs at the Smithsonian Institution, The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Il Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival in Bologna, and the Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO). He is the founder of the annual African Film Festival of Ottawa (AFFO), presented in partnership with the Canadian Film Institute (CFI). As the North American Regional Secretary for the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI), he initiated and oversees the FEPACI Archival Project. In that capacity, he was instrumental in establishing African Film Heritage Project (AFHP), a major film preservation and restoration initiative in partnership with Martin’s Scorsese’s The Film Foundation and UNESCO in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna.</p>

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