Taafe fanga / un film de Adama Drabo.
Director Adama Drabo has devised a gender-bending farce set among the 18th Century Dogon to make some serious points about the status of women in Africa today. In Taafe Fanga, Drabo has revised the Sigi myth (which seems originally to have expressed male anxiety over female control of fecundity) int...
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| Online Access: | Streaming video from Academic Video Online |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Bambara English |
| Published: | San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1997. |
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| Summary: | Director Adama Drabo has devised a gender-bending farce set among the 18th Century Dogon to make some serious points about the status of women in Africa today. In Taafe Fanga, Drabo has revised the Sigi myth (which seems originally to have expressed male anxiety over female control of fecundity) into a myth about women's right to resist patriarchy, in the griot's words, "to fight for the right to be different and equal. This film, along with Drabo's 1991 feature Ta Dona provide important examples of how contemporary African artists are freely reappropriating traditional belief systems to illuminate pressing social issues. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed December 01, 2017). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (100 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 01:39:01 |
| Awards: | Won 1997 Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film, Jury Special Prize Nominated 1997 Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film, Golden Bayard, Best Film Won 1997 Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival, Jury Special Prize Won 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival, Best Artistic Contribution Award Nominated 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival, Tokyo Grand Prix |
| Production Credits: | Photography, Lionel Cousin ; editor, Rose Evans Decraene ; music, Harouna Barry, and others. |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |