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Jun 16, 2024 · New 4K Restoration. Mauritanian French director Med Hondo's WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY proved a watershed event for African cinema — the continent's first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic, Broadway revue, Brechtian theater and joyous agitprop.
Jun 7, 2024 · Through a historically situated close reading of Mauritanian-French filmmaker Med Hondo's first feature-length film, Soleil Ô (1970), this article traces the development of a deeply inventive, decolonial form of audiovisual critique that retains its analytical and affective force.
Jun 12, 2024 · Sembène's influence both in Africa and internationally paved the way for Nollywood in Nigeria, and encouraged other African filmmakers including Med Hondo (Mauritania), Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (Algeria), Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon), Souleymane Cissé (Mali), Jean-Pierre Lledo (Algeria), Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia), Djibril Diop ...
Jun 15, 2024 · Med Hondo. France-Mauritania 1978. 85min. Digital. English subtitles. Made in support of the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination in Western Sahara, Hondo’s striking film foregrounds battles that the crew experienced.
Jun 4, 2024 · In 1986 Mamani worked with Mauritanian film director Med Hondo to create the influential award-winning movie Sarraounia – one of the great political films in world cinema.
Jun 20, 2024 · The first generation of indigenous African filmmakers included Paulin Vieyra and the novelist Ousmane Sembene (both from Senegal), Med Hondo (Mauritania), Desiré Ecaré (Ivory Coast), and Oumarou Ganda (Niger). Their contemporary Sarah Maldoror (from Guadeloupe) worked in various African countries.
Jun 20, 2024 · Across the course, literary texts, films, and critical texts are brought into dialogue, enabling students to engage in comparative discussions, as well as to reflect on questions of medium specificity. Course description. The course offers a detailed exploration of key topics in postcolonial literature and film.
Jun 18, 2024 · Med Hondo’s Vital Political Cinema Comes to New York The Mauritanian filmmaker, long active in France, reveals the legacy of colonialism in society at large and in the art of movies. March 20,...
May 31, 2024 · Here, students have begun a weekly film club, where screenings of work by such directors as Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, John Akomfrah, and Med Hondo instigate intellectual conversation.
Jun 24, 2024 · Rio Hondo Community Mental Health Center offers comprehensive mental health services, vocational rehabilitation, and dual diagnosis treatment for Los Angeles County residents. Mental Health. Dual Diagnosis. Drug Addiction. About Rio Hondo Mental Health Center.
