Sarah Maldoror’s poignant adaptation of Aimé Césaire’s play Et les chiens se taisaient unfolds in the storerooms of Paris’ Musée de l’Homme and is performed by the filmmaker with Gabriel Glissant. The second film sees the filmmaker invited to Miami but ends up meeting Aimé Césaire at the foot of Mount Pelée in Martinique. And in Regards de mémoire, writer Édouard Glissant evokes Haitian general Toussaint Louverture and weaves together a history of slavery with the memory of uprootedness in the poetry of Aimé Césaire. Et les chiens se taisaient (And the Dogs Kept Silent) France. 1978. Sarah Maldoror. 13min. Digital 4K (restoration). With English subtitles La Route de l’esclave: Regards de mémoire (Slave’s Route: Glimpses of Memory) France. 2003. Sarah Maldoror. 24min. Digital 4K (restoration). With English subtitles La Route de l’esclave: Regards de mémoire (Slave’s Route: Glimpses of Memory) France. 2003. Sarah Maldoror. 24min. Digital 4K (restoration). With English subtitles Restored in 4K with the support of MANSA (Maison des mondes africains). Screen: NFT3. Screening details: Special screening available; English language subtitles; Discussion curated and hosted by programmer and writer Jonathan Ali.
