Carnival in the Sahel (1979)
Sarah Maldoror · 28 min
Carnival in the Sahel screens once in London: BFI Southbank, Tuesday 8 September at 18:20.
Where to watch it
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
Fiesta
What it is
Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during which the limits are transgressed, the world is circumnavigated, and the dominator becomes the dominated, in addition to being an explosion of music and sensations, a great collective performance in which the characteristics of négritude-identity comes forth.