Sarah Maldoror
Directing
Born July 19, 1929 in Condom, France
Sarah Maldoror (in Arabic: سارة مالدورور), whose real name was Marguerite Sarah Ducados, was a French filmmaker and director, born on July 19, 1929 in Condom (Gers) and died on April 13, 2020 in Fontenay-lès-Briis (Essonne). Her cinema is poetic but also political and committed. She is considered a leading figure in African cinema and the first female director on the continent. Born to a Guadeloupean father from Marie-Galante and a mother from Gers, she chose the artist name "Maldoror" in homage to the poet Lautréamont. In 1958, she created the first black troupe in Paris, "Les Griots", alongside Toto Bissainthe, Timoti Bassori and Samb Abambacar. One of their goals is to share and make known the texts of black authors, and to offer major roles to actors of African origin. Sarah Maldoror left for two years in Moscow to study cinema at VGIK under the guidance of Mark Donskoï. There she met the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène.
Filmography
Mário
Foreword to Guns for Banta
Afrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle
Self
Papa Césaire
Ana Mercedes Hoyos
Voisins, voisines
Mme Patisson
Scala Milan AC
Les oiseaux mains
Memory's Gaze
Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema
Self
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Self
Tribu du bois de l'E
L'Enfant cinéma
Léon G. Damas
Vlady
Robert Doisneau, photographe
Le Passager du Tassili
Rencontre avec Assia Djebar
Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
First International Conference for Black Women
A Senegalese Man in Normandy
Tunisian Literature at the French National Library
Point Virgule
Alberto Carlisky
Point Virgule, Youth Journal
Portrait of Christiane Diop
Portrait of an African Woman
Public Writer
Claudel in Reims
Toto Bissainthe
Robert Lapoujade, peintre
The Hospital of Leningrad
Emanuel Ungaro
A Dessert for Constance
René Depestre, poète haïtien
Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor
Wifredo Lam
Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris
Miró, The Painter
Carnival in the Sahel
Fogo, Fire Island
Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris
Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak
The Basilica of Saint-Denis
Mosaïque
Self
Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
Self
And the Dogs Were Silent
Sambizanga
Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir
Guns for Banta
The Pan-african Festival in Algiers
Monangambeee
The Battle of Algiers
The Women