Film
Borom Sarret + La Noire de...
Introduction and discussion with Manthia Diawara
Borom Sarret
D: Ousmane Sembène, Senegal 1962, 22 min, French OV with German translation over headphones
A cart-man loses his livelihood because he dares to cross the arbitrary border into a modern administration district … Borom Saret is the first film shot by an African film-maker in Africa.
La noire de… (Black Girl)
D: Ousmane Sembène, Senegal 1966, 65 min, French OV with German transation over headphones
A young woman from Senegal, who is taken to the Riviere as a servant, discovers what it means to be reduced to the role of ‘black girl’. With his social-realist approach, Sembène consciously creates a counterpoint to ethnically based identity politics of the kind demanded by the Négritude movement.
