Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog - Behind the camera, in the frame: African Women's Autobiographical Imaginaries

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog
Behind the camera, in the frame: African Women's Autobiographical Imaginaries

 
“You want to do a story on Zanele Muholi? Where is she in this? You do a story on me, where will I be? Will I be another subject standing in front of the camera and tell my story completely?...What will be my position?

Zanele Muholi highlights the urgency of the African woman practitioner to be the agent of her own story. Hence, for her, “history, historical agency, and autobiographical consciousness have become significant and signifying components of identity, artistic production, and social agency.” She is an “empirical subject” who exists separate from and prior to her films.

A selection of relevant links from the African Women in Cinema Blog:

Rim Temimi: Manco Moro
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/rim-temimi-manco-moro.html

Nesrine el Zayat: On the Fence
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/nesrine-el-zayat-on-the-fence.html

Laura Sousa: Fin | End
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/laura-sousa-fin-end.html

Karima Saidi: Dans la Maison | A Way Home
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/artetv-karima-saidi-dans-la-maison-way.html

Lina Soualem: Leur Algérie
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/vues-dafrique-2021-lina-soualem-leur.html

Ines Johnson Spain: Becoming Black
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/12/ines-johnson-spain-becoming-black.html

Tamara Mariam Dawit: Finding Sally
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/08/recent-films-tamara-mariam-dawit.html

Matamba Kombila: Mundele n: blanche, étrangère - white, foreigner
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/07/matamba-kombila-mundele-n-blanche.html

Eliane Tekou Donchi : La main interdite
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/02/festival-films-femmes-afrique-2020_11.html

Aline Angelo Milla & Soraya Milla: Afropolitaine, la websérie 100% afro french touch
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/12/afropolitaine-la-webserie-100-afro.html

Beryl Mgoko: In Search
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/10/ndiva-womens-film-festival-2019-in.html

Words of Frieda Ekotto, producer of the film Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion With My Sisters
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/03/words-of-frieda-ekotto-producer-of-film.html

Aicha Macky: The Fruitless Tree | L’arbre sans fruit
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2017/03/luxor-african-film-festival-2017_2.html

Khady Sylla & Mariama Sylla Faye : Une Simple Parole | A Single Word
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/03/laff-2015-une-simple-parole-single-word.html

Astrid Ariane Atodji : La Souffrance est une école de sagesse | Suffering is a School of Wisdom
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/03/laff-2015-astrid-ariane-atodji-la.html

Fidel 2013: Perspectives of Black African Women - Images of Diversity and Equality Festival (Paris)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/09/fidel-2013-perspectives-of-black.html

Tapiwa Chipfupa: The Bag on my Back
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/08/aljazeera-witness-bag-on-my-back.html

Claude Haffner: Footprints of My Other (Black Here, White There)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/03/claude-haffner-black-here-white-there.html