Three minutes to decolonize a library? Sarah Maldoror said hold my celluloid.
Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s film points the way toward a more polyvocal understanding of the role of France’s National Library worldwide.
Direction
Maldoror's radical economy of image and time
Editing
Jarring cuts between colonial archives and present
Production
Made for an exhibition, transcends its occasion
Director
Sarah Maldoror
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maldoror made this while finishing her masterpiece Sambizanga — she was essentially moonlighting as a revolutionary while being a revolutionary.
The 1986 exhibition itself was controversial: French institutions framing Francophone African intellectual production as their own cultural achievement. Maldoror's film bites the hand that commissioned it.
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