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

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Éia pour Césaire (Papa Césaire). 2009. 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 82 min.

La Route de l’esclave: Regards de mémoire (The Slave Route: Traces of Memory). 2003. France. Directed by Sarah Maldoror. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 24 min.

From the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture to the poet Aimé Césaire and theorist Édouard Glissant, Sarah Maldoror links the history and legacy of slavery with poetry, the province of memory, trauma, exile, and resistance.

Éia pour Césaire (Papa Césaire). 2009. France/Martinique. Directed by Sarah Maldoror. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 58 min.

Shortly after the death of the poet and politician Aimé Césaire in 2008, Sarah Maldoror returned to Martinique to retrace his footsteps, speaking with friends (including his secretary and housekeeper) and strangers alike about the mark he made on his beloved homeland.

This film accompanies Sarah Maldoror.

Past events

Sun, May 11, 2025, 2:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Mon, May 5, 2025, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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