Sarah Maldoror on Aimé Césaire and Other Poets (Program One)

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Et les chiens se taisaient (And the Dogs Were Silent). 1978. Directed by Sarah Maldoror. Courtesy Association of Friends of Sarah Maldoror and Mário de Andrade.

Sarah Maldoror’s friendships with poets and political thinkers like Aimé Césaire, Louis Aragon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Léon-Gontran Damas profoundly shaped her life in theater, cinema, and activism. Program 60 min.

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre (Aimé Césaire, A Man, A Land). 1977. France/Martinique. Directed by Sarah Maldoror. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 47 min.

Interweaving interviews, images of the Martinique landscape, and scenes from her play The Tragedy of King Christophe (1963), Sarah Maldoror paints a portrait of her friend Aimé Césaire, the Martinican author of the still-polemical Discourse on Colonialism (1950) and a founder of the Négritude movement.

Et les chiens se taisaient (And the Dogs Were Silent). 1978. France. Directed by Sarah Maldoror. Screenplay by Maldoror, based on a play by Aimé Césaire. With Gabriel Glissant, Maldoror. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 13 min.

Amid the African statues and masks in the storerooms of the Musée de l’Homme in Paris, a rebel recites an anti-slavery poem, drawn from a play by Aimé Césaire, in the presence of his mother.

This film accompanies Sarah Maldoror.

Past events

Mon, May 5, 2025, 6:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Sun, May 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m.

With an introduction from Annouchka de Andrade

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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