For Lovers of African Art
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is a 2019 Mosotho dramatization movie coordinated by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and co-created by Cait Pansegrouw and Elias Ribeiro. The film stars Mary Twala Mhlongo, with...
Chronicle of the Years of Fire ( French: Chronique des Années de Braise; these names both mean “Chronicle of the Years of Embers”) is a 1975 Algerian drama historical film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It depicts the Algerian War of Independence as seen through...
During the period of French colonization, motion pictures were transcendently a misleading publicity instrument for the French pioneer state. Albeit shot in Algeria and saw by the neighborhood populace, by far most of “Algerian”...
Book Review by Suzanne MacRae Guide To African Cinema Guide to African Cinema, by Sharon A. Russell. Westport: Greenwood P, 1998. 184 pp This book belongs to a series, Reference Guides to the World’s...
Reviewed by Judith Mayne Judith Mayne, is Professor of French and Women’s Studies at The Ohio State University. Prior to the development of feminist film studies in the early to mid 1970s, most discussions...
Film author and editot Richard Porton wrote an excellent essay on Senegalese director, Djibril Diop Mambety’s bold experimental style of film-making. Via: The Criterion Collection Touki bouki: Mambéty and Modernity By Richard Porton It’s...
