Sarah Maldoror Movies

Originally an analog slide show made for two projectors, this work recounts the making of Sarah Maldoror's lost and surely never-to-be-seen first...

A short animation about motion and poetry.

There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand...

A portrait of Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe, whose musical journey is marked by her desire to disseminate creole singing.

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

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

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

In this report on an annual conference known as RIFEN, Black women from around the world gather to discuss points of common interest and need,...

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

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

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

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

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

In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams...

Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without...

Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses...