SAT JUN 3, 2023 1:00 PM "Borom Sarret" / BLACK GIRL $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by filmmaker Brandon David Wilson ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 2′ Checking Event Status... *This is an RSVP which means first come first served. This RSVP does not guarantee a seat. Not a Member? Join Today. Already a Member? Be sure you are logged in to your account. Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please select the quantity and fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP First Name Last Name Email Quantity Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILMS: “Borom Sarret”, 1963, Ousmane Sembène , 18 Minutes, Janus Films, Senegal In French with English subtitles This groundbreaking short film, which won first prize at the 1963 Touris Film Festival in France, was the directorial debut of Ousmane Sembène. FORMAT: DCP BLACK GIRL, 1966, Ousmane Sembène , 59 Minutes, Janus Films, Senegal In French with English subtitles Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived and the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring BLACK GIRL (La noire de . . .). Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine Thérèse Diop, BLACK GIRL is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s. FORMAT: DCP