Sarah Maldoror Filmes

  • 1986
    Point Virgule, Youth Journal

    Point Virgule, Youth Journal

    Point Virgule, Youth Journal

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    In this short piece, fledgling editors, reporters, and illustrators describe their work on Point Virgule, a newspaper by and for young people,...

    Point Virgule, Youth Journal
  • 1979
    Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris

    Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris

    Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris

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    Sarah Maldoror finds inspiration in the hidden corners of Paris, where architecture was shaped by foreign styles and influences.

    Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris
  • 1980
    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

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    Sarah Maldoror documents the opening of the Théâtre Noir de Paris, a Négritude-inspired theater company and cultural association...

    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris
  • 1980
    Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor

    Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor

    Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor

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    First staged in Krakow and the Gdansk shipyards in 1980, where Poland’s Solidarity movement was born, and here performed at the...

    Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor
  • 1985
    Portrait of Christiane Diop

    Portrait of Christiane Diop

    Portrait of Christiane Diop

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    Sarah Maldoror reports on Christiane Diop, editor of the publishing house Présence africaine, which includes an interview with illustrator...

    Portrait of Christiane Diop
  • 1980
    Carnival in Bissau

    Carnival in Bissau

    Carnival in Bissau

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    Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

    Carnival in Bissau
  • 1978
    Père Lachaise Cemetery

    Père Lachaise Cemetery

    Père Lachaise Cemetery

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    Sarah Maldoror’s camera roams the famous flagstones and foliage of Père Lachaise, visiting its nooks and cats, to the sound of poems...

    Père Lachaise Cemetery
  • 1987
    Robert Doisneau, photographe

    Robert Doisneau, photographe

    Robert Doisneau, photographe

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    A portrait of the famous photographer, shot for his 1987 exhibition at the musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis.

    Robert Doisneau, photographe
  • 1986
    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

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    Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s...

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library
  • 1986
    Emanuel Ungaro

    Emanuel Ungaro

    Emanuel Ungaro

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    This modest portrait of the fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro seems to mark a departure from Sarah Maldoror’s usual subjects, but it nonetheless...

    Emanuel Ungaro
  • 1986
    A Senegalese Man in Normandy

    A Senegalese Man in Normandy

    A Senegalese Man in Normandy

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    The Senegalese man of the film’s title is Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and first president of Senegal, who is remembered by...

    A Senegalese Man in Normandy
  • 1980
    Wifredo Lam

    Wifredo Lam

    Wifredo Lam

    01980HD

    Maldoror reports on a painting exhibition of the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam at the Artcurial gallery in Paris in 1980.

    Wifredo Lam
  • 1984
    Robert Lapoujade, peintre

    Robert Lapoujade, peintre

    Robert Lapoujade, peintre

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    Portrait of the French painter-etcher, lithographer and director.

    Robert Lapoujade, peintre
  • 1972
    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

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    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir
  • 1996
    L'Enfant cinéma

    L'Enfant cinéma

    L'Enfant cinéma

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    Film dedicated to Toto Bissainthe, the Haitian singer that Sarah Maldoror also filmed at an earlier stage. Here, the magic of cinema is summoned and...

    L'Enfant cinéma
  • 1977
    The Basilica of Saint-Denis

    The Basilica of Saint-Denis

    The Basilica of Saint-Denis

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    A short film about all facets of the Parisian Gothic basilica, which features both a cathedral and a necropolis, the latter containing tombs of...

    The Basilica of Saint-Denis