BAMAKO
SIGI-KAN
Manthia Diawara
(76 min./Color/2002)
“This original documentary shot by Arthur Jafa brings a
new look to the modern African city and enables a better understanding
from the inside of how democracy takes root in Mali. Discover
how politics in the city and in everyday life is lived in a changing
society still inscribed within tradition as the men and women
of Bamako tell their own stories.”
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Title: Women’s
Group
Length: 2:13
Description: Several middle-class Malian women discuss the world
economy, with views ranging from the practical to the theoretical
to the immediate.
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Title: Sabarni
Dancing
Length: 4:10
Description: Malians of all ages and backgrounds express their
widely differing opinions of the recently banned Sabarni dancing.
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CONAKRY
KAS
Manthia Diawara
(82 min./Color/2003)
“In January 2003, Director Manthia Diawara visited Guinea-Conakry
to see what was left of the artists (Ballets Africains, Bembeya
Jazz National) and intellectuals (D.T. Niane, Telivel Diallo)
of the Guinean Cultural revolution; and how the citizens of Conakry
were coping with globalization. The film casts a nostalgic look
at Pan-Africanism in the 1960s, and asks what is the utopia of
the Guinean youth today.”
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Title: Conakry
Changes
Length: 1:17
Description: Guinean scholar D.T.Niane discusses how migration
from the country to the city changes Conakry, and how immigrants
adapt to the city.
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Title: Masks
Length: 3:27
Description: The filmmaker visits a traditional mask maker and
looks at how traditional arts can influence modern arts, for
good or ill.
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