A Tribute to Sarah Maldoror
1968-1994 / 90 min. / digital video
Doc Films, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St.
Monday, March 28, 2022 at 7pm
Tickets: $7
Part of “An Open Window: Black Women Directors Across the Diaspora,” curated by Erisa Apantaku and J. Michael Eugenio
Presented by Doc Films at the University of Chicago and South Side Projections.
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In tribute to the late Sarah Maldoror, we present a screening of her first and favorite film, Monangambée (1968, 15 min.), named after the Angolan anti-colonial call for a village meeting, and scored by the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s avant-garde jazz; her first TV film, A Dessert for Constance (1980, 52 min.), full of immigrant joy, homesickness, and solidarity; and her impassioned Léon G. Damas (1994, 23 min.), meditating on the Négritude poet.