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Other Cinemas Weekender - Friday
Join Other Cinemas at The Yellow for their 2021 weekender of free events which will be exploring the theme 'colonialism, legacies and resistances’.
“The word griot… is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society… The griot is a messenger of one’s time, a visionary and the creator of the future.” — Djibril Diop Mambéty
This year’s weekender, which will take place in person, will explore the ways colonialism seeps into our ways of being; how it shapes them and their values; and how it enforces a notion of ‘progress' which destroys the very communities that could counter this colonial logic. We also wanted the films to document resistances - communities that sought other ways and other logics, those who fought back with arms and with their own bodies when that’s all that they had. We have also programmed films which in some way showcase the legacies and resistances to colonialism both in the past and the present, and to reflect on the feeling that little has changed.
Friday 12 November - from 7pm, free
Hyenas (1992), dir Djibril Diop Mambéty
Hyenas explores the insidious nature of colonialism, it’s omnipresence and the ways it moves through capital. Hyenas captures this through the main protagonists brutal line "This world has made me a whore so I’ll turn this world into a whorehouse". This ever mutating and ever-present colonialism turns into tragicomic absurdity in Mandabi as the main protagonist tries to cash a money order in a society reeling from French domination. These two films explore in their own unique ways the legacies of colonialism and the impact of modernity.
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Hyenas Trailer
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