Sanogo speaks at TIFF

Professor of film studies, Aboubakar Sanogo will be speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Bell Lightbox on this Friday and Saturday.

Higher Learning at TIFF Bell Lightbox is hosting Sanogo’s talk, “The Lumière Brothers and Africa.”  The lecture will examine the work of the Lumiere brothers in and on Africa from 1896 to 1903. This Lumiere Africa Corpus, made of about 100 of the 1425 films currently restored, will be examined in relation to the historiography of early cinema. The talk will take place on Friday, February 4 at 10 am.

Sanogo’s second talk is entitled “A Sembenian Century: Ousmane Sembene and his times” will focus on the significance and resonance of Ousmane Sembène’s films and include screenings of La Noire de…and Borom Sarret. The lecture will take place prior to the screening and an audience Q&A session will follow the films. The event is scheduled for Saturday, February 5, at 6:30 pm.

Sanogo’s research interests include African cinema, documentary, world cinema, colonial cinema, and the relationship between film form, history and theory. He is also a film curator, and has curated programs at the Smithsonian Institution and the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou.

Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis through the TIFF Bell Lightbox Office an hour before the event begins. Students and faculty must show valid university ID.

More information on “The Lumière Brothers and Africa”

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