Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 2005
    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    02005HD

    A short animation about motion and poetry.

    Les oiseaux mains
  • 1987
    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    01987HD

    Aimé Césaire - Le Masque des mots is a portrait of the Martinican writer who calls himself a rebellious negro and for whom the poetic...

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
  • 1976
    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

    6.51976HD

    For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

    And the Dogs Were Silent
  • 1976
    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    101976HD

    Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
  • 1980
    Carnival in Bissau

    Carnival in Bissau

    Carnival in Bissau

    01980HD

    Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

    Carnival in Bissau
  • 2009
    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    02009HD

    Documentary about Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos, which deals with slavery and Afro-Caribbean cultures.

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos
  • 2011
    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    02011HD

    Originally an analog slide show made for two projectors, this work recounts the making of Sarah Maldoror's lost and surely never-to-be-seen first...

    Foreword to Guns for Banta
  • 1987
    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    01987HD

    For the France 3 show, Mosaïque, Sarah Maldoror met Assia Djebar on Sunday March 29, 1987 on the occasion of the publication of her book Ombre...

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar
  • 2003
    Regards de mémoire

    Regards de mémoire

    Regards de mémoire

    02003HD

    The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general...

    Regards de mémoire
  • 1979
    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

    01979HD

    Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. The review of an exhibition by Miró at the Maeght Foundation offers the...

    Miró, The Painter
  • 1970
    Guns for Banta

    Guns for Banta

    Guns for Banta

    01970HD

    Guns for Banta is the first feature-length film by Sarah Maldoror. Shot in Guinea-Bissau, Guns for Banta follows the life and untimely death of Awa,...

    Guns for Banta
  • 1978
    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    01978HD

    There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand...

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris
  • 1998
    Tribu du bois de l'E

    Tribu du bois de l'E

    Tribu du bois de l'E

    01998HD

    In this documentary about Reunion Island, Maldoror begins with a look at an exhibition by sculptor Alain Seraphine, with automated drumming machines...

    Tribu du bois de l'E