Les noms n'habitent nulle part = Names live nowhere / Underworld présente ; un film de Dominique Loreau ; interprétation et improvisation de Sotigui Kouyaté[and others].
Sotigui Kouyaté, Nar Sène, Sékouo Baldé, Assane Kaba, Fatou Gueye, Muriel Jacobs, Malang Baldé, Soukel Baldé, Danièle Pierre, Sofia Leboutte, Colette Emmanuelle, Renelde Dupont, Christian Baggen. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1994.
Summary:
Presented in the style of a documentary, the film's title comes from a Senegalese proverb, and points to the circumstance of the individual spirit no matter the place. Starting from the back alleys of Dakar, a travelling griot (a West African term for a performer of local traditions, customs, and histories) tells tales of emigrant Africans he knew and subsequently sees during a trip to Belgium. As the griot compares their lives with the lives of those they had left behind, all concerned face the question of whether personally-held traditions and beliefs can survive in unfamiliar places, far away from those who would keep them alive. Real-life griot Sotigui Kouyaté plays the films' storyteller, interpreting the role through his personal knowledge of the art form.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)232115131
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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