{"id":403058,"date":"2023-12-15T22:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=403058"},"modified":"2024-05-03T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T19:00:20","slug":"sarah-maldorors-tricontinental-cinema-at-wexner-center-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/sarah-maldorors-tricontinental-cinema-at-wexner-center-for-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Maldoror&#8217;s &#8220;Tricontinental Cinema&#8221; at Wexner Center for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recognized as &#8220;the mother of African cinema,&#8221; Maldoror completed more than 45 shorts, documentaries, and feature films for both the screen and television before her death in 2020. Many of these works, including her searing anti-colonial drama&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wexarts.org\/film-video\/sambizanga-0\"><em>Sambizanga<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(1972)\u2014one of the first features made in Africa by a Black woman filmmaker\u2014rewrite the rules of films focusing on resistance and rebellion, often casting women as protagonists in movements dominated by men. Other films chart Maldoror\u2019s creative connections with key artists and intellectuals in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, including Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam and N\u00e9gritude poet Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, as well as jazz musicians like the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wexarts.org\/performing-arts\/art-ensemble-chicago\">Art Ensemble of Chicago<\/a>.<br>&nbsp;<br><em>Tricontinental Cinema<\/em>&nbsp;extends this circle of conversations and collaborations to the present. The exhibition includes several large-scale works by contemporary artists, including a monumental fiber sculpture by renowned French and Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga and an installation by American sculptor Melvin Edwards. It also features a newly commissioned mural, painted on-site, from Paris-based artist Maya Mihindou. Framing Maldoror\u2019s films and archives, these works form a constellation of Black and Afro-Surrealist practices while amplifying the continued resonance of her work today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema\u00a0<\/em>is organized by Palais de Tokyo, Paris and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. The exhibition is curated by Fran\u00e7ois Piron and C\u00e9dric Fauq, and originally presented at Palais de Tokyo from November 25, 2021-March 13, 2022. The Wexner Center presentation is organized by Daniel Marcus, Associate Curator of Exhibitions, with Kelly Kivland, Head of Exhibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Sarah Maldoror<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Maldoror was born Sarah Ducados in 1929 in the town of Condom in Gers, France. The child of a Guadeloupean father and French mother, Maldoror matriculated into the intellectual and artistic ferment of 1950s Paris, where she cofounded the first Black theater troupe in France. Rechristening herself in homage to Isidor Ducasse\u2019s proto-Surrealist book\u00a0<em>Les Chants de Maldoror\u00a0<\/em>(1868\u201369), she earned a scholarship to study filmmaking in Moscow, where she counted future Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne among her classmates at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). After decamping from Moscow to Morocco, her stint as assistant director of Gillo Pontecorvo\u2019s insurrectionary classic\u00a0<em>The Battle of Algiers<\/em>\u00a0(1966) set the course for Maldoror\u2019s first film,\u00a0<em>Monangambeee\u00a0<\/em>(1969)\u2014an exploration of colonial violence during the Angolan national liberation movement\u2014followed by\u00a0<em>Sambizanga<\/em>\u00a0(1972, also screened at the Wex in 2022). In the decades thereafter, Maldoror directed more than 45 films, many of which feature leading voices of N\u00e9gritude and Pan-Africanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This exhibition is made possible by Gal\u00e9ria Nueveochenta and Etant donn\u00e9s Contemporary Art, a program of Villa Albertine. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":403311,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[231,219,215,366,218],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[242],"class_list":["post-403058","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-audiovisual","app_discipline-cinema","app_discipline-new-media","app_discipline-poetry","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-exhibition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sarah Maldoror&#039;s &quot;Tricontinental Cinema&quot; at Wexner Center for the Arts - 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\/sarah-maldorors-tricontinental-cinema-at-wexner-center-for-the-arts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sarah Maldoror&#039;s &quot;Tricontinental Cinema&quot; at Wexner Center for the Arts - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recognized as &#8220;the mother of African cinema,&#8221; Maldoror completed more than 45 shorts, documentaries, and feature films for both the screen and television before her death in 2020. 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