{"id":405,"date":"2015-02-11T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/02\/11\/vulture-reflects-on-ousmane-sembene-father-of-african-cinema\/"},"modified":"2015-02-11T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:52:00","slug":"vulture-reflects-on-ousmane-sembene-father-of-african-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/02\/11\/vulture-reflects-on-ousmane-sembene-father-of-african-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulture reflects on Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne, father of African cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year’s Sundance film festival hosted the premiere of Semb\u00e8ne!<\/i>, a documentary about African filmmaker Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne. You might not know that name, but Semb\u00e8ne is one of the most important figures in the birth of African cinema. He arguably started the entire African film movement with, as Vulture<\/i> describes<\/a>, “no film equipment, no professional actors, and no funding.”<\/p>\n

Semb\u00e8ne is a name worth knowing, and in celebration of the new documentary, Vulture<\/i> put together a terrific overview of Semb\u00e8ne’s work<\/a> and his contributions to African cinema. We strongly recommend giving it a read if you want to learn about one of the hardest working and most pivotal filmmakers in world cinema.<\/p>\n

If you want to dive further into his work, look for Semb\u00e8ne’s films in our collection. They’re frequently being checked out for class use, but you can also watch many of them here in the library.<\/p>\n

Xala \u2013 HU DVD 1286 <\/a>
Mandabi \u2013 HU DVD 1287 <\/a>
La Noire de… \u2013 HU DVD 1953<\/a>
Moolaad\u00e9 \u2013 <\/span>HU DVD 3862<\/a>
Faat Kine\u0301 \u2013 DVD 8721<\/a>
Ceddo \u2013 DVD 9465<\/a>
Camp de Thiaroye \u2013 DVD 9728<\/a>
Borom Sarret \u2013 DVD 10070<\/a>
Guelwaar \u2013 DVD 10586<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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