Oumarou Ganda, Petit Touré, Alassane Maiga, Amadou Demba, Seydou Guéde, Karidyo Daoudou, Mademoiselle Gambi. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958.
Summary:
"Moi, un noir marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called 'shared ethnography' and 'ethnofiction.' The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, for work. After a short introduction by Rouch, 'Edward G. Robinson'--Omarou Ganda, who like the film's other subject-collaborators plays himself under the name of a Western movie star--takes over the film's narration, recreating dialogue and providing freewheeling commentary on his experiences. Robinson describes the bitter reality of life in Treichville, a poor inner suburb populated largely by migrants, and his work as a day laborer (bozori) in the ports ... Rouch's stylistic innovations here exerted a profound influence on the French New Wave, and his collaborative process helped bolster the national cinemas of West Africa"--Container.
Series:
Six films by Jean Rouch
OCLC:
(OCoLC)824752482
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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