African Avant-Garde Film-Makers | Activity
Cinema session devoted to three African avant-garde film-makers because of their practices and thoughts about the language of film. The activity will be presented by Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA.
In The return of an adventurera western set in Niger, Moustapha Alassane uses satire to question the appropriation of western narratives and values. Fifteen years after his iconic Touki BoukiDjibril Diop Mambéty follows the shooting of Yababy Idrissa Ouedraogo, showing the difficulties of filming in Burkina Faso with Let’s talk grandmaand focusing on his two particular concerns: cinema and childhood. Finally, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, in Grandma’s Grammar…, pays homage to Mambéty, who, with humor and ingenuity, gives us his definition of cinema from a bar counter.
Activity in collaboration with Filmoteca de Catalunya, as part of the Africa Strikes Back series, accompanying the exhibition Extreme Collision: Hand-painted Posters from Ghana, 1990s.
Programme
The return of an adventurer (The Return of an Adventurer)
Moustapha Alassane, 1966. Niger. Subtitled in Catalan. 34 min. DCP
Let’s talk grandma (Let’s Talk, Grandma)
Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1989. Senegal. Subtitled in Catalan. 34 min. DCP
Grandma’s Grammar… (Grandmother’s Grammar…)
Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 1996. Great Britain–France–Cameroon. Subtitled in Catalan. 7 minutes Digital archive
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exhibition
From 6 November 2025 to 6 April 2026
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
