Cinema Wolof: The little girl who stole the sun, Mambety's last film from his unfinished trilogy, 'tales of the little people.'
If Sembene was considered the father of african cinema, then Mambety, would be the cult guru (some have even called him the 'Dionysius' of African Cinema.) Baba Diop, well-known African film critic and friend of Mambety's (currently working on his biography) introduced the screening of Le Petit Venduese du Soleil, a gem from Mambety's short film repertoire. This was Mambetys last film, (he died while editing it) and was part 2 of what was to be a trilogy called tales of the little people.
Usman, a vendor in the market with a powerful 'ghetto blaster' with a FM tuner and meat skewer antenna provided his bit of 'charge' by loaning it to us. Sound was distributed as always over 103.FM.
Baba Diop greeted the audience and said: Mambety believed that cinema was in everyone's eyes, all we had to do was close them, think, rub our eyes and then open them and they would be able to "see" cinema...The kids chanted after him... 'rub, rub, rub and open your eyes...'
After the film, Diop and Modibo D'iaware conversed with the children, some felt guilty at watching Sili being laughed at by the other boys for being crippled, others said that happens all the time and they admired her courage and heart.
As promised, we were to screen some Bollywood songs, as part introduction to where "we come from". Bambai nagariya, Khaike pan Benaras, and Main hoon Don had been shown prior to Mambetys 'soleil' with a promise of a hindi film, for the next soiree. Much of this (Bollywood from the 70s and 80s) is very familiar to the audience.
Sept Soirees was a series of battery-powered "evenings" in the Marche N' Gellaw, a suburban market in Dakar, Senegal. These evenings were conceived in a situation where there is scarce time, space or other resources for communal activity at a certain scale. Also because of the peculiar condition of cinemas in Dakar: there are only two still functioning.
These "micro-cinema" and "micro-radio" events are performed by showing up at a street corner with some equipment, and negotiating the rest.
Center for Comparative Media, Extractive Media Group
with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)
We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)
The Neighbour before the House
+
A Stone's Throw
August 1 – 7:30 pm
August 7 – 7:30 pm
August 12 – 7:30 pm
August 31 – 7:30 pm
with filmmaker q&a
CROWDED HOUSE
machines, skins, traps and five-year plans
CAMP, Urvar and Studio ON invite you to a one-day Open House of artworks and interactions with the 2024 Inlaks Fine Art Awardees, who have been in residence in Borivali for the past 4 weeks.
as part of
Heavy Metal Containers
July 9, 10 pm
July 13, 7:30 pm
July, 17 pm
July 29, 7:30 pm
Months long workshop initiated by a group of artists in and around Delhi.
To analyse contemporary mediation and media theory as a general phenomenon, to discuss emerging practice and theory, and to produce new work.
Part 1 @Sarai, April 20-22, 2024
featuring
The Neighbour Before the House
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار
Shaina A speaks about CAMP's past-present-future project and indiancine.ma at CSMVS in conjuction with A Cinematic Imagination: Josef Wirsching & the Bombay Talkies.