Maumaus (Lumiar Cité)
Maumaus (Lumiar Cité)
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Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom Manthia Diawara (2023) | Trailer
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom reflects on the life and work of the North American activist Angela Davis. Manthia Diawara’s camera follows Davis as she walks through a forest of giant sequoias, works in the garden or walks her dog, while reflecting on myriad issues, including ideas of freedom, resistance, rebellion, remaking our world, political blackness, radical black thought, music, (inter)nationalism, (Global South) feminism, abolition, the industrial prison complex, generational shifts, dialectics, contradiction, Africa, sexuality, desire and also friendship. The film is neither a biography nor a fictional narrative. Instead, Diawara’s footage, which is interspersed with re...
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Who's Afraid of Ngugi? (Manthia Diawara, 2006) | Trailer
Просмотров 39Год назад
This documentary follows acclaimed author Ngugi wa Thiong’o as he and his political activist wife Njeeri wa Thiong’o journey back to Kenya after years of exile. As they are welcomed home by joyous and hopeful crowds, they also must cope with those who still find their revolutionary words and deeds threatening. A useful film for discussions about African literature, post-colonial literature and ...
Bamako Sigi-Kan (Manthia Diawara, 2002)
Просмотров 51Год назад
Set in Bamako, capital of Mali, this unconventional documentary tells the story of the return of the director to his hometown, to see how his childhood friends are coping with globalization. Full of nostalgia, he has also brought along an African American photographer, Jules Allen, friend, for whom he plays the role of a tour guide. Together, they are confronted with the everyday reality of the...
Diaspora Conversations: from Goree to Dogon (Manthia Diawara, 2003) | Trailer
Просмотров 26Год назад
Actor Danny Glover and director Manthia Diawara travel through West Africa from Goree to Dogon, creating conversations that link different sides and accounts of the African diaspora. "Diaspora Conversations" traces a journey of memory. Traversing through various locales, they negotiate between the current impact of globalization and the historical questions that both confront and facilitate com...
Conakry Kas (Manthia Diawara, 2003) Trailer
Просмотров 110Год назад
Stream full video Home Video: vimeo.com/ondemand/conakrykas Educational/Library: vimeo.com/ondemand/conakrykaseducational In January 2003, Manthia Diawara visited Guinea-Conakry to see what was left of the artists (Ballets Africains, Bembeya Jazz National) and intellectuals (D.T. Niane, Telivel Diallo) of the Guinean Cultural revolution, and how its citizens of Conakry were coping with globaliz...
A Letter from Yene (Manthia Diawara, 2022) | Trailer
Просмотров 1342 года назад
A Letter from Yene emerges from conversations with the community in the seaside town of Yene, Senegal, where Diawara lives for part of the year. The area was traditionally and primarily occupied by fishermen and farmers but has in recent decades been besieged by coastal erosion and uncontrolled urbanisation. Fish have become scarce and the pirogues, traditional fishing boats, cannot go far enou...
In Search of Africa (Manthia Diawara, 1997) | Trailer
Просмотров 862 года назад
Stream full video Home Video: vimeo.com/ondemand/searchafrica Educational/Library: vimeo.com/ondemand/searchafricapurchase In 1996, the filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara, now living in New York, returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. Despite the years that have gone by, Diawara expects to be welcomed as an insider, and is s...
An Opera of the World (Manthia Diawara, 2017) | Trailer
Просмотров 2953 года назад
Stream full HD video, with subtitles in English, French, German and Italian Home Video: vimeo.com/ondemand/diawaraopera Educational/Library: vimeo.com/ondemand/diawaraoperainstitut ‘An Opera of the World’ is based on ‘Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera’, which narrates an eternal immigration drama. The opera, filmed in Bamako, in 2007, serves a mirror for Diawara to build an aesthetic and reflexive sto...
AI: African Intelligence (Manthia Diawara, 2022) | Trailer
Просмотров 4753 года назад
AI: African Intelligence explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession among traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the emergence of new technology frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence. Considering the confluence of tradition and modernity, Diawara questions how we could move from disembodied machines towards a more humane and spiritual contro...
Sembène: The Making of African Cinema (Manthia Diawara, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1994) | Trailer
Просмотров 2333 года назад
Stream full video Home Video: vimeo.com/ondemand/diawarasembene/ Educational/Library: vimeo.com/ondemand/diawarasembeneinstitut In this rich documentary, legendary Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Topics of discussion are also the role of the artist in society and the politics of decolonisation.
Negritude, a Dialogue between Soyinka and Senghor (Manthia Diawara, 2015) | Trailer
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.3 года назад
Stream full video Home Video: vimeo.com/ondemand/negritude Educational/Library: vimeo.com/ondemand/negritudeinstitut Based on archive material, Manthia Diawara organizes an imagined dialogue between Léopold Senghor, one of the founders of the concept of Negritude, and Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. According to Manthia Diawara, ‘the film probes the curre...
Rouch in Reverse (Manthia Diawara, 1995) | Trailer
Просмотров 3893 года назад
Stream full video Home Video: vimeo.com/ondemand/jeanrouch Educational/Library: vimeo.com/ondemand/jeanrouchinstitut Malian filmmaker and New York University professor, Manthia Diawara introduces a technique he calls “reverse anthropology.” By turning the camera on the prominent ethnographic filmmaker, Jean Rouch, he opens a dialogue that encourages Africans to create versions of their own past...
Maison Tropicale (Manthia Diawara, 2008) | Trailer
Просмотров 2533 года назад
Stream full video: Home Video vimeo.com/ondemand/maisontropicale Educational/Library: vimeo.com/ondemand/maisontropicaleinstitut Mireille Ngatsé lived for several years in the Maison Tropicale in Brazzaville. It was designed by Jean Prouvé, the famous French constructor and architect. Ms. Ngatsé describes the aluminum house as comfortable, even though it had no electricity or running water. She...
Édouard Glissant: one world in relation (Manthia Diawara, 2010) | Trailer
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.3 года назад
Stream full video Home Video: vimeo.com/ondemand/glissant Educational/Library: vimeo.com/ondemand/glissantinstitut In 2009, Manthia Diawara, with his camera, followed Édouard Glissant on the Queen Mary II in a cross-Atlantic journey from South Hampton (UK) to Brooklyn (New York). This poetic meditation continued in Martinique, the native home of Édouard Glissant. The extraordinary voyages resul...
Ângela Ferreira - Entrer dans la mine
Просмотров 1015 лет назад
An installation/performance by Ângela Ferreira curated by Jürgen Bock for the Lubumbashi Biennial 2013 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) The main component of Angela Ferreira's installation in Lubumbashi is a 'modern' wood-light sculpture installed on top of the GPM gas station on Avenue Munongo in the 'colonial' centre of the city. The building designed by the Belgian architect Claude Strebel...
André Trindade, Filipa Cordeiro - Verão Eterno
Просмотров 435 лет назад
André Trindade, Filipa Cordeiro - Verão Eterno
Lasse Lau - Sound from the Hallways
Просмотров 225 лет назад
Lasse Lau - Sound from the Hallways
Manthia Diawara, Terri Geis and Jürgen Bock talk about the David Hammons's exhibition at Lumiar Cité
Просмотров 2255 лет назад
Manthia Diawara, Terri Geis and Jürgen Bock talk about the David Hammons's exhibition at Lumiar Cité
Thomas Mulcaire, Carlos Neves after Courbet, 2011
Просмотров 175 лет назад
Thomas Mulcaire, Carlos Neves after Courbet, 2011
Jürgen Bock talks about the David Hammons's exhibition at Lumiar Cité (16.03-26.05.2019)
Просмотров 1955 лет назад
Jürgen Bock talks about the David Hammons's exhibition at Lumiar Cité (16.03-26.05.2019)