"A Negra De..." (La Noire De... - 1966)
Dir.: Ousmane Sembene

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"A Negra De..." (La Noire De... - 1966)
Dir.: Ousmane Sembene
Stills from “La Noire de...”, by Ousmane Sembène,1972.
Some movies stay with you...
La Noire de…(Black girl) feels important not only because of its story, but because of what it represented historically. Directed by Ousmane Sembène, the film was one of the first feature length films made in Africa by an African director. Instead of Africa being represented through colonial or European perspectives, Sembène “turns the camera” toward African experiences and allows Black characters to exist as emotionally complex individuals rather than stereotypes. The film immediately challenges the ways Africa and Black women were historically portrayed in Western media.
The film strongly connects to our class discussions about Black Independent Cinema and representation. In “Black and White in Black and White,” Rachael Langford explains that African filmmakers began using cinema to represent themselves rather than being defined through colonial imagery. Sembène critiques colonial representations by centering Diouana’s emotions, interiority, and perspective instead of reducing her to a simplistic stereotype. This directly reflects our class conversations about the importance of self-representation in Black cinema.
Reading Referenced: Rachael Langford, Black and White in Black and White
Tonight's #criterion viewing: Ousmane Sembène's BLACK GIRL (1966). The purpose of starting this #criterioncollection marathon was to try and watch all the Criterion Blu-rays and DVDs I own, so that I could then justify the expense of finally signing up for the Criterion Channel. However, until the end of June, they've made a bunch of work by Black filmmakers free to stream, and I wanted to use the opportunity to fill some blind spots before that window closes. What a place to start. Senegalese cinema is a total blind spot for me, and while African cinema isn't a total blind spot, it's pretty damn close. Watching this felt like my first time watching a Satyajit Ray film, realizing that there is a brilliant and unique filmmaker, completely new to me, whose work I get to discover and enjoy. Not that this is a movie to "enjoy;" it is tragic, and probably the best movie I've ever seen about colonialism. But Sembène's voice is so clear and distinct from frame one. #blackgirl #lanoirede #ousmanesembène #mbissinethérèsediop #senegal #senegalesscinema #africancinema https://www.instagram.com/p/CBmRB4ZgJXE/?igshid=1k6e07t809gwf
#033 #LaNoireDe #AGarotaNegra ★★★★★ Curiosamente os dois últimos filmes que vi no cinema colocam o negro no centro das atenções, são “A Garota Negra” e “Pantera Negra”, o primeiro de 1966 o segundo recém-lançado. Falarei brevemente do primeiro e num próximo post do segundo. Considerando sua data de lançamento “A Garota Negra”, de Ousmane Sembène é muito atual e mantém a discussão da imigração de população pobre para países desenvolvidos e estáveis financeiramente, aqui especificamente, vemos uma imigrante negra que parte de Dakar no Senegal, a princípio para cuidar de duas crianças de um casal francês na abastada Riviera francesa. Claro que o casal usa a jovem para todos os serviços do lar e o sonho da jovem Diouana, delicadamente interpretada por Mbissine Thérèse Diop vira um pesadelo. Há muito do colonialismo em “A Negra de...” tradução literal do original francês “La Noire de...”, muito sobre a corrupção do ser humano e da exploração dos mais vulneráveis. Temas como racismo, expiação da mulher e serviço escravo são denunciados de maneira sutil e objetivo, é um recorte doloroso de uma realidade que aqui, foi explorada há mais de 50 anos, mas continua latente nos dias atuais Uma porrada de filme com uma sequência final devastadora e filmada sublimemente por Ousmane. #frança🇫🇷 #filmes2018 #senegal🇸🇳 (em IMS Paulista)