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Manthia Diawara

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Biography: Manthia Diawara is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian.

Department: Directing

Place of Birth: Not available

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Birthday: December 19, 1953

Age: 71 years old

Gender: Male

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Overview: It showcases the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages and the emergence of new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence.

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2023-02-18

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Overview: In Senegal, Yene was traditionally a seaside town with many fishermen and farmers but has in recent years been troubled by coastal erosion and urbanisation. In conversation with the town’s community, Manthia Diawara explores how their lives contribute to the undermining of their shared environment.

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2022-07-21

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Overview: Malian filmmaker and New York University professor, Manthia Diawara critiques visual anthropology through the work of Jean Rouch.

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Original Language: en

Release Date: 1995-01-01

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Overview: In An Opera of the World, Malian scholar and filmmaker Manthia Diawara reflects upon the refugee crisis and the relationship between Europe and Africa. The film revolves around a 2008 performance of Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, by Zé Manel Fortes with a libretto by Koulsy Lamko, in Bamako, around which Diawara builds a story about migration, interweaving interviews with documentary and archival footage. In the course of the film, one crosses into the world of opera from the tradition of sung wisdoms and sentiments, which has characterized West African culture for centuries. If opera is often understood as an über-European art form—the Gesamtkunstwerk invoked by Richard Wagner—Diawara chooses to meditate on its movement or migration as opposed to its expansion or totality. What happens when opera moves south, from Europe to Africa, just as so many people from that continent are moving north, in search of better lives?

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2017-06-10

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Overview: “In 2015, Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo released the acclaimed feature documentary SEMBÈNE!, on the life and career of Ousmane Sembène. For the following short documentary, the filmmakers have assembled footage from interviews that were not included in the original film, including musician Youssou N’Dour, activist and author Angela Davis, author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, filmmaker Clarence Delgado, and filmmaker and scholar Manthia Diawara” (Criterion Collection).

Genres: Drama

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2021-02-16

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