The film reveals how the African American sculptor Melvin Edwards, nowadays a worldwide recognized artist, has established along 5 decades his own artistic language.----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis Born in the South of the US in the late 30’s, during the segregation, nowadays the sculptor Melvin Edwards is a worldwide recognized artist. As black internationalist, pan-Africanist, and… Continue reading “Some Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards,” a documentary by Lydie Diakhaté
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Real Life Documentary Festival 2007
Real Life Documentary Festival: A pan-African Festival of Documentary Films Following a highly successful first annual Real Life Documentary Film Festival in Accra in Ghana in May 2006, to which several filmmakers and organizations gave their support, the organizers of the festival hereby propose an other event scheduled for June 2nd--8th 2007. We intend to strengthen… Continue reading Real Life Documentary Festival 2007
Real Life Documentary Festival 2006
Real Life 2006 REAL LIFE: A PAN-AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN ACCRA A MESSAGE FROM THE PRODUCERS, DIRECTORS AND VOLUNTEERS We collectively welcome you to our first Real-Life Documentary Film Festival. This initiative is part of alarger project by a newly formed archival and documentation project called the West African DocumentaryForum. We hope to encourage people to use the documentary medium to produce films for educational and cultural purposes. During this week you will see varieties of films exploring the lives, histories and situations of people of African descent in Africa and the rest of the world. Our program targets both young and older people, filmmakers and potential ones, as well as spectators forwhom we want to make watching documentaries a part of their visual culture. The program has high schoolstudents in… Continue reading Real Life Documentary Festival 2006
THE WORLD OF FREDERIC BRULY BOUABRE
The World of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré and his Object teaching Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, self-taught encyclopaedist and blacksmith of words, lives and works in Abidjan. He was born in 1923 in Zéprégühe, Ivory Coast. While working as a civil servant in the French colonial regime in Senegal, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré had a divine revelation. On… Continue reading THE WORLD OF FREDERIC BRULY BOUABRE
STARS OF ETHIOPIA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHESTER HIGGINS JR
March 1 – May 1, 2011 Location: Kimmel Center, NYU Windows Gallery Space LaGuardia Place and West 3rd street New York, NY 10012 An exhibition organized by The Institute of African American Affairs at NYU Curated by Lydie Diakhaté An outdoor series of 13 large-scale portraits from Ethiopia displayed at the Kimmel Center Windows Gallery… Continue reading STARS OF ETHIOPIA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHESTER HIGGINS JR
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