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- Title
PART VII–Critiquing Africas/Diasporas: Intersecting Dialogues—In Conversation with Claire Diao, Leyla Bouzid, Mati Diop, and Cornélia Glele.
- Authors
Gbadamassi, Falila
- Abstract
Journalist/film critic Falila Gbadamassi, in conversation with several film practitioners and activists, discovers the myriad interests, concerns, and burning issues that propel their desire to plunge into this vast cinematic landscape. Franco-Burkinabe film journalist, programmer, and activist Claire Diao explores the role that cinema plays as a link between her two cultures. Franco-Tunisian Leyla Bouzid, talks about her film A Tale of Love and Desire (2021, Tunisia) in the context of her own lived experiences, to have a double culture and at the same time have a kind of distance, to be able to question these identities and interrogate representations of it. Franco-Senegalese Mati Diop's relationship to cinema is intertwined with her Africanity. At the same time that her films pay homage to the generation of her uncle Djibril Diop Mambety and her father Wasis Diop, she continues her cinematic journey in her own way, using the tools of her generation. Beninese film organizer and consultant Cornélia Glele navigates behind the scenes with The Woman King (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2022, United States and Benin) team as she teaches the actresses the fundamentals of the Fon language of the "Agodjiés" of Benin.
- Subjects
BENIN; FILM critics; ROMANCE films; CONVERSATION; ACTIVISTS; JOURNALISTS
- Publication
Black Camera: The New Series, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 2, p388
- ISSN
1536-3155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/blc.00020