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African shorts.
LIBRA VHS/PAL PN1995.9.A43 A47 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Conference/Event
- Video
- Conference Name:
- Africa95 (1995 : London, England, etc.)
- Series:
- Screen griots
- Screen griots : the art & imagination of African cinema
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Short films--Africa.
- Short films.
- Incest--Africa--Drama.
- Incest.
- Healing--Africa--Drama.
- Healing.
- Social conditions.
- Africa--Social conditions--Drama.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (69 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on container and on cassette label: Three African shorts
- 3 African shorts
- Place of Publication:
- London : Connoisseur Video/Academy Video, [1995]
- Language Note:
- French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS PAL.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- PAL
- Summary:
- A collection of three African short fictional films originally released between 1963 and 1992. "Denko (1991) ... shows a very modern concern with tradition and sexuality via a tale of incest and ritual healing. Borom Sarret (1963) ... [is] the story of the misadventures of a poor cart-driver ... Certificat d'indigence (1981) ... is the sober chronicle of a poor woman seeking medical help for her sick child"--Container.
- Contents:
- Denko (20 min.) / directed by Mohamed Camara
- Borom Sarret (18 min.) / directed by Sembene Ousmane
- Certificat d'indigence (29 min.) / written and directed by Moussa Yoro Bathily.
- Notes:
- Released as part of the Africa95 project on African cinema, promoted by the British Film Institute through its African and Caribbean Film Unit.
- Contains:
- Camara, Mohamed. Denko.
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007. Borom Sarret.
- Bathily, Moussa Yoro, 1946- Certificat d'indigence.
- OCLC:
- 38466053
- Publisher Number:
- CAV 038 Connoisseur/Academy Video
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