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Screening and Q&A with Documentary Filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno
April 11, 2017
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library, River Campus
The Department of Modern Languages & Cultures and the
Frederick Douglass Institute for African & African-American Studies presents
A Screening and Q&A with
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker
Jean-Marie Teno
Tuesday, April 11, 6–8 pm
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library
Born in Cameroon, Jean-Marie Teno arrived in France in 1978 and has been producing and directing social-issue films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty-five years for international television broadcast and theatrical release. His films are noted for their personal and original approach to issues of race, cultural identity, African history, and contemporary politics.
Teno's films have been honored at festivals worldwide: Berlin, Toronto, Yamagata, Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Liepzig, San Francisco, and London. Many have been broadcast in Europe and featured in festivals across the United States. Teno has been a guest of the Flaherty Seminar, an artist in residence at the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California, Berkeley, a Copeland Fellow in Amherst College, and has lectured at numerous universities.
Filmography
- Chosen (in progress)
- Une feuille dans le vent [A Leaf in the Wind] (2013)
- Lieux saints [Sacred Places] (2009)
- Le malentendu colonial [The Colonial Misunderstanding] (2004)
- Le mariage d'Alex [Alex's Wedding] (2003)
- Vacances au pays [A Trip to the Country] (2000)
- Chef! [Chief!] (1999)
- Clando [Clandestine/Gypsy Cap] (1996)
- La tête dans les nuages [Head in the Clouds] (1994)
- Afrique, je te plumerai [Africa, I Will Pluck You Clean] (1992)
- Mister Foot (1991)
- Le dernier voyage [The Last Trip] (1990)
- L'eau de misère [Bikutsi Water Blues] (1988)
- De Ouaga à Douala en passant par Paris (1987)
- La gifle et la caresse (1987)
- Fièvre jaune taximan [Yellow Fever Taximan] (1985)
- Hommage (1985)
Links:
Event flier (PDF)
Category: Film Screenings