…searching, becoming...rebirth by Beti Ellerson
African women of the screen navigate frontiers, negotiate relocations, displacements, re-emplacements, redefine home. Whether in African or extra-African environments, they inscribe these imaginaries in their films. Some relate fantastical possibilities, others autobiographical journeying, both of which problematize evolving identities on the timeline of their life stories. Hence, traveling, sojourning and relocating across myriad environments involve re-fashioning or ultimately expanding the identities of African women's cinemas.
These cinematic journeys, imaginary or real, follow itinerate paths, pauses and reshifts, stops and recovery. Hence, an exploration of African women's exilic peregrinations or peripatetic voyaging on re-imagined, (re)discovered, (re)discovered lives, landscapes.
Notes to continue…
A selection of articles on the African Women in Cinema Blog about African women's cinematic journeying (with ongoing updating):
Christiane Kouraogo: The Retour
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2022/01/christiane-kouraogo-le-retour-une-fable.html
Baya Medhaffar: Festina | Lente
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/baya-medhaffar-festina-lente.html
Souad Douibi: M9kawda
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/souad-douibi-m9kawda.html
Rim Temimi: Manco Moro
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/rim-temimi-manco-moro.html
Samantha Biffot: Mami Wata Series
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/samantha-biffot-mami-wata-serie-2021.html
Nina Khada: Je me suis mordue la langue
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/nina-khada-je-me-suis-mordue-la-langue.html
Matamba Kombila: Mundele n: blanche, étrangère
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/07/matamba-kombila-mundele-n-blanche.html
Nana Hadiza Akawala: Bibata est partie (Bibata is gone)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/02/fespaco-2019-bibata-est-partie-bibata.html
Ng'endo Mukii's Kitwana's Journey, animation film
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/01/kitwanas-journey-animation-film-by.html
Laurentine Bayala: Au fantôme du père (To the Ghost of the Father)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/06/mis-me-binga-2018-laurentine-bayala-au.html
Beti Ellerson: On-Screen Narratives, Off-Screen Lives
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/05/black-camera-on-screen-narratives-off.html
Beti Ellerson: Traveling Gazes
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2017/05/black-camera-spring-2017-beti-ellerson.html
Astrid Ariane Atodji: Suffering is a school of wisdom
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/03/laff-2015-astrid-ariane-atodji-la.html
Eliaichi Kimaro: Tracing her Tanzanian Roots
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/08/eliaichi-kimaro-tracing-her-tanzanian.html
Claude Haffner: Footprints of my other
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/03/claude-haffner-black-here-white-there.html
Theresa Traore Dahlberg: Taxi Sister
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/06/theresa-traore-dahlberg-and-taxi-sister.html
Iman Kamel: Beit Shaar | Nomad's Home
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/02/iman-kamel-beit-shaar-nomads-home.html
Sarah Bouyain: Notre etrangere | The Place in-between
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/02/sarah-bouyain-notre-etrangerethe-place.html
Gendered Representations of Africans in the French Hexagon
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2009/05/gendered-representations-of-africans.html
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/01/kitwanas-journey-animation-film-by.html
Laurentine Bayala: Au fantôme du père (To the Ghost of the Father)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/06/mis-me-binga-2018-laurentine-bayala-au.html
Beti Ellerson: On-Screen Narratives, Off-Screen Lives
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/05/black-camera-on-screen-narratives-off.html
Beti Ellerson: Traveling Gazes
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2017/05/black-camera-spring-2017-beti-ellerson.html
Astrid Ariane Atodji: Suffering is a school of wisdom
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/03/laff-2015-astrid-ariane-atodji-la.html
Eliaichi Kimaro: Tracing her Tanzanian Roots
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/08/eliaichi-kimaro-tracing-her-tanzanian.html
Claude Haffner: Footprints of my other
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/03/claude-haffner-black-here-white-there.html
Theresa Traore Dahlberg: Taxi Sister
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/06/theresa-traore-dahlberg-and-taxi-sister.html
Iman Kamel: Beit Shaar | Nomad's Home
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/02/iman-kamel-beit-shaar-nomads-home.html
Sarah Bouyain: Notre etrangere | The Place in-between
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/02/sarah-bouyain-notre-etrangerethe-place.html
Gendered Representations of Africans in the French Hexagon
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2009/05/gendered-representations-of-africans.html