Sun November 20, 2016
Black Girl
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at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Screening Room
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Directed by Ousmane Sembène
New Restoration!
Ousmane Sembène, the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement and is presented in a brand-new digital restoration from the original camera negative (1966, 65 min, digital).
Preceded by Sembène’s short Borom Sarret, which chronicles a day in the life of a Dakar cart driver, also newly restored. (1963, 18 min, digital)
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New Restoration!
Ousmane Sembène, the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement and is presented in a brand-new digital restoration from the original camera negative (1966, 65 min, digital).
Preceded by Sembène’s short Borom Sarret, which chronicles a day in the life of a Dakar cart driver, also newly restored. (1963, 18 min, digital)
Directed by Ousmane Sembène
New Restoration!
Ousmane Sembène, the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement and is presented in a brand-new digital restoration from the original camera negative (1966, 65 min, digital).
Preceded by Sembène’s short Borom Sarret, which chronicles a day in the life of a Dakar cart driver, also newly restored. (1963, 18 min, digital)
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New Restoration!
Ousmane Sembène, the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement and is presented in a brand-new digital restoration from the original camera negative (1966, 65 min, digital).
Preceded by Sembène’s short Borom Sarret, which chronicles a day in the life of a Dakar cart driver, also newly restored. (1963, 18 min, digital)
show less
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Screening Room
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
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