| Hosted by | Yale Film Archive |
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| Details | BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, 1966, DCP, 65 mins) BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembène, 1963, 16mm, 20 mins) Post-screening discussion! Sembène’s first short and first feature — both shot in black and white — explore pressures on labor in postcolonial Senegal’s early years, as seen through BOROM SARRET’s wagon tour of Dakar and BLACK GIRL’s stifling sojourn to France. “Essential viewing for the well-rounded film lover” (Jordan Hoffman). In French with English subtitles. DCP from Janus Films, 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive. The series “Early Ousmane Sembène: The First Films from the Father of African Cinema” is presented by the Yale Film Archive and the Whitney Humanities Center in celebration of the centenary of Sembène’s birth. |
| Admission | FREE |
| Location | Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level |
| More Info | info link |