Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 2009
    Eia pour Césaire

    Eia pour Césaire

    Eia pour Césaire

    102009HD

    Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé...

    Eia pour Césaire
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1995
    Léon G. Damas

    Léon G. Damas

    Léon G. Damas

    91995HD

    Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and...

    Léon G. Damas
  • 2005
    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    02005HD

    A short animation about motion and poetry.

    Les oiseaux mains
  • 2005
    Scala Milan AC

    Scala Milan AC

    Scala Milan AC

    02005HD

    Some teenagers sign up for the contest: "Describe your neighborhood", whose first prize is a trip to Milan. As the youngsters are football fans and...

    Scala Milan AC
  • 1979
    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    01979HD

    Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture.

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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