{"id":272042,"date":"2023-09-12T17:53:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=272042"},"modified":"2023-09-12T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:53:28","slug":"ousmane-sembene-centennial","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/ousmane-sembene-centennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne Centennial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>09\/16\/2023&nbsp;|&nbsp;3:15 p.m. |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siskelfilmcenter.org\/black-girl\">BLACK GIRL<\/a>&nbsp;(1966) &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the brilliant&nbsp;BLACK GIRL,&nbsp;Semb\u00e8ne&nbsp;transforms a deceptively simple plot\u2014about a Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison\u2014into a layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. BLACK GIRL, one of the essential films of the 1960s, is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement.&nbsp;Preceded by&nbsp;BOROM SARRET&nbsp;(1963, 20 min.) and&nbsp;NIAYE&nbsp;(1964, 35 min.).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>09\/17\/2023&nbsp;|&nbsp;1 p.m. |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siskelfilmcenter.org\/mandabi\">MANDABI<\/a>&nbsp;(1968) &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In first movie ever made in the Wolof language\u2014a major step toward the realization of Semb\u00e8ne\u2019s dream of creating a cinema by, about, and for Africans\u2014after Ibrahima receives 25,000 francs, news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors, who flock to him for loans. MANDABI\u2014an adaptation of a novella by the director himself\u2014is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption, greed, and poverty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>09\/18\/2023&nbsp;|&nbsp;6 p.m. |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siskelfilmcenter.org\/emitai\">EMITA\u00cf<\/a>&nbsp;(1971)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EMITA\u00cf envisions both the cruelties of oppression and the revolutionary potential of the oppressed. During World War II, French forces and their African lackeys comb the Senegalese countryside, conscripting young men into service and seizing rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. With unflinching realism, Semb\u00e8ne explores the strains that colonialism places upon cultural traditions and discovers a people\u2019s hidden reserves of rebellion and dignity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>09\/19\/2023&nbsp;|&nbsp;6 p.m. |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siskelfilmcenter.org\/xala\">XALA<\/a>&nbsp;(1975)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the night of his wedding to a third bride, a government official is rendered impotent. After suspecting that one of his other wives has placed a curse (xala) on him, and after enlisting a local marabout for a cure, he must face the possibility that he deserves the infliction for his part in the embezzlement of public funds and for helping to keep Senegal in French hands. Combining elements from African folklore and popular cinema, XALA indicts the immoral hubris of entitled male authority figures and Senegalese sellouts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>09\/20\/2023&nbsp;|&nbsp;8:30 p.m. |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siskelfilmcenter.org\/ceddo\">CEDDO<\/a>&nbsp;(1977)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In precolonial Senegal, members of the Ceddo (\u201coutsiders\u201d) kidnap Princess Dior Yacine after her father pledges loyalty to an Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe caught in the middle. Banned in Semb\u00e8ne\u2019s native Senegal upon its original release, CEDDO is an ambitious epic that explores the combustible interstices among ancient tradition, religious colonization, political opportunism, and individual freedom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>09\/21\/2023&nbsp;|&nbsp;6 p.m. |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siskelfilmcenter.org\/guelwaar\">GUELWAAR<\/a>&nbsp;(1992)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGuelwaar\u201d is the nickname of a political radical and agitator whose criticism of Senegal\u2019s reliance on foreign aid ruffles the feathers of the powers-that-be. His suspicious death is followed by a farcical mix-up when his corpse is mistaken for that of another man and accidentally interred in an Islamic cemetery. At once a tragicomic study of social atomization and a hopeful vision of Pan-African solidarity and independence, GUELWAAR is Semb\u00e8ne\u2019s masterclass in interweaving complex storylines and merging disparate stylistic tones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":272071,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[219],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[313],"class_list":["post-272042","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-cinema","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-film-series"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne Centennial - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/ousmane-sembene-centennial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne Centennial - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"09\/16\/2023&nbsp;|&nbsp;3:15 p.m. |&nbsp;BLACK GIRL&nbsp;(1966) &nbsp; With the brilliant&nbsp;BLACK GIRL,&nbsp;Semb\u00e8ne&nbsp;transforms a deceptively simple plot\u2014about a Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison\u2014into a layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. 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