Sarah Maldoror Movies
- 1986
Alberto Carlisky
Alberto Carlisky01986HD
Maldoror traces the dramatic life of the self-taught sculptor Alberto Carlisky, who fled his native Argentina after being imprisoned in 1944 by the...
- 1986
A Senegalese Man in Normandy
A Senegalese Man in Normandy01986HD
The Senegalese man of the film’s title is Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and first president of Senegal, who is remembered by...
- 1986
First International Conference for Black Women
First International Conference for Black Women01986HD
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,...
- 1985
Portrait of Christiane Diop
Portrait of Christiane Diop01985HD
Sarah Maldoror reports on Christiane Diop, editor of the publishing house Présence africaine, which includes an interview with illustrator...
- 1980
Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam01980HD
Maldoror reports on a painting exhibition of the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam at the Artcurial gallery in Paris in 1980.
- 1972
Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir
Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir01972HD
Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.
- 1996
L'Enfant cinéma
L'Enfant cinéma61996HD
Film dedicated to Toto Bissainthe, the Haitian singer that Sarah Maldoror also filmed at an earlier stage. Here, the magic of cinema is summoned and...
- 1977
The Basilica of Saint-Denis
The Basilica of Saint-Denis01977HD
A short film about all facets of the Parisian Gothic basilica, which features both a cathedral and a necropolis, the latter containing tombs of...
- 1978
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery01978HD
Sarah Maldoror’s camera roams the famous flagstones and foliage of Père Lachaise, visiting its nooks and cats, to the sound of poems...
- 2005
Les oiseaux mains
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A short animation about motion and poetry.
- 1979
Fogo, Fire Island
Fogo, Fire Island01979HD
Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without...
- 1985
Public Writer
Public Writer01985HD
Sarah Maldoror interviews women of different nationalities who serve as “public” writers, linking French administrative bodies with...
- 1980
Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor
Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor01980HD
First staged in Krakow and the Gdansk shipyards in 1980, where Poland’s Solidarity movement was born, and here performed at the...
- 1986
Point Virgule
Point Virgule01986HD
In this short piece, fledgling editors, reporters, and illustrators describe their work on Point Virgule, a newspaper by and for young people,...
- 1982
René Depestre, poète haïtien
René Depestre, poète haïtien01982HD
Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René...
- 1978
Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris
Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris01978HD
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...