{"id":4280,"date":"2025-09-13T06:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=4280"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:53:54","slug":"black-girl-borom-sarret","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/black-girl-borom-sarret\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Girl\/Borom Sarret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Director: Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne, Senegal\/France 1966, 70 mins, 12<\/p>\n

Black Girl<\/i> (Le Noire de…<\/i>) was one of the first sub-Saharan films to make a major impact in Europe and North America. Semb\u00e8ne\u2019s brilliant and stirring feature debut transforms a deceptively simple plot\u2014about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally\u2014into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. A harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement.
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Borom Sarret<\/i> (1963, 19 mins) was Semb\u00e8ne\u2019s very first film and among the earliest films produced in Africa by a black African. Semb\u00e8ne had to invent the filming techniques from scratch using a secondhand 16mm camera and film stock provided by friends from Europe. A poverty-stricken Senegalese cart driver tries to make a living as a taxi driver on the streets of just post-colonial Dakar. Many of his customers do not pay him and he is treated like dirt by his better off customers and officials alike. Welcome to the post-independence world.
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\u201cone of the most insightful, representations of the social life of a people lost in the space between traditional and postcolonial society\u201d Bright Lights Film Journal<\/i><\/div>\n <\/blockquote>\n

Further reading<\/h4>\n
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  1. The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Senses of Cinema<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Slant magazine<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Obituary of Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne (2007)<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne: \u2018the father of African cinema\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n<\/div\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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