Sarah Maldoror Movies

Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during...

A portrait of the famous photographer, shot for his 1987 exhibition at the musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis.

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

In this documentary, Sarah Maldoror offers a portrait of the Mexican painter Vlady (1920-2005, born Vladimir Kibaltchich), filming mainly his works...

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...

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 finds inspiration in the hidden corners of Paris, where architecture was shaped by foreign styles and influences.

Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and...

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...

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie is a Togolese short documentary film directed by Anne-Laure Folly. It was released in 1999. The film is a...

A short animation about motion and poetry.

This modest portrait of the fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro seems to mark a departure from Sarah Maldoror’s usual subjects, but it nonetheless...

Maldoror traces the dramatic life of the self-taught sculptor Alberto Carlisky, who fled his native Argentina after being imprisoned in 1944 by the...

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

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

Sarah Maldoror interviews women of different nationalities who serve as “public” writers, linking French administrative bodies with...