Short Film Program:

Césaire, un homme, une terre (Aimé Césaire –  A Man, a Country)
Sarah Maldoror, Martinique, France 1976, 52 min. French with English subtitles, digital

Regards de mémoire (Route d'esclave) (Glimpses from Memory (Slave Route))
Sarah Maldoror, Martinique, Haiti 2003, 27 min. French with English subtitles, digital

Et les chiens se taisaient (And the Dogs Kept Silent)
Sarah Maldoror, France 1978, 13 min. French with English subtitles, digital

Ana Mercedes Hoyos
Sarah Maldoror, France, Colombia 2008, 13 min. Spanish with English subtitles, digital

Introduction by Annouchka de Andrade

Alternating interview sequences, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from the play „La Tragédie du roi Christophe“ (1963) in Césaire, un homme, une terre Sarah Maldoror paints a portrait of her friend Aimé Césaire, politician, poet and founder of the Négritude movement. In Regards de mémoire, she accompanies Édouard Glissant visiting the cell of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. Sarah Maldoror also meets Aimé Césaire in front of the slavery memorial to discuss the deep meaning of this tragic page of history. In the form of a portrait of the artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Sarah Maldoror highlights the African roots of Colombian culture in its relationship with slavery, issues ever present in the artist's work. As early as the 1950s, Sarah Maldoror's Compagnie des Griots was planning to stage this tragic poem by Aimé Césaire, finally interpreted in And the dogs kept silent by Sarah Maldoror and Gabriel Glissant in the Musée de l'Homme's reserves devoted to Black African culture. (GB)