And the Dogs Were Silent (1976)
Sarah Maldoror · 13 min
And the Dogs Were Silent screens 3 times at 2 London cinemas between Saturday 22 August and Tuesday 22 September.
Where to watch it
Barbican Centre
Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS
Pan-African Interventions in the Museum + Panel Discussion
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
Rebellion
Rebellion + discussion curated and hosted by programmer and writer Jonathan Ali
What it is
For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes profoundly aware of his otherness when condemned to death. His existential dialogue with his mother reverberates around the African sculptures on display at the Musée de l'Homme, a Parisian museum full of colonial plunder whose director was the Surrealist anthropologist Michel Leiris.