Abderrahmane Sissako’s African Worlds
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About Sissako + this series:
What is the place of West Africa in the world and of the world in West Africa? These are the questions that the Oscar- and Palme d’Or-nominated filmmaker Adberrahmane Sissako asks insistently in films that address the impact of World Bank and IMF policies in Mali and beyond (Bamako, 2006), the confrontation between extremist and moderate Islam in the southern Sahara (Timbuktu, 2014), and exile in Europe and the difficulties of returning home (Life on Earth, 1999). In all of his films, Sissako brings a worldly sensibility to the representation of the most pressing concerns of the continent, but always with an eye for the beauty and tenderness in everyday life, no matter how difficult, and for the moral ambiguities and linguistic complexities that evade so many representations of West Africa.
Schedule:
Apr. 22 | 1–3pm | Life on Earth (1998) at Henry Art Gallery Auditorium
Apr. 23 | 3–5pm |Waiting for Happiness (2002) at Henry Art Gallery Auditorium
Apr. 24 | 1–3pm | Bamako (2006) at NWFF
Apr. 25 | 6–8pm | Timbuktu (2014) at NWFF
Apr. 26 | 7–8:30pm | Translating African Worlds: A Conversation with Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako, Kane Hall at University of Washington
Abderrahmane Sissako
Black Cinema Collective
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