From a media release:
African Films on DVD: Seasons of a Life & The Silent Monologue Now Available
SEASONS OF A LIFE
Director: Shemu Joyah
From: Malawi
Year: 2008- Minutes: 102 mins
Language : English
Genre: Drama
A housemaid, who is sexually abused by her boss and made pregnant, is forced to give up her son in order to go on with her education. Six years later she comes back to claim her son.
From Malawi comes this moving story about sexual abuse, women rights and the legal justice system in Malawi.
This film tackles universal themes in an African setting giving viewers an understanding of some of the modernization and democratization processes in Africa.
To order Seasons of a Life please contact ArtMattan Films at info@AfricanFilm.com or call (212) 864-1760.
DVD sale: $245
THE SILENT MONOLOGUE
LE MONOLOGUE DE LA MUETTE
Director: Khady Sylla and Charlie Van Damme
From: Senegal / Belgium
Year: 2008- Minutes:48mins
Language : French and Wolof with English subtitles
Genre: Docu-drama
Also now available is The Silent Monologue by Khady Sylla, official selection of the 2012 Locarno Film Festival.
In a voice-over, we hear the thoughts of Amy, a girl from a rural area of Senegal who works as a domestic for a well-to-do family in Dakar. She complains about her employer, who continuously criticizes her and gets on her case, and she talks about her dream of one day opening her own eatery. Meanwhile, we see her sweep the pavement, prepare the food and clean the house. The contrast with her vast and barren native region is enormous.
In Dakar, some 150,000 young women work as housekeepers for families whose daughters can go to school. "Why does the emancipation of some result in the servitude of others?" Amy wonders. The filmmakers interview other young maids who dream of going to school, and they film a woman who shouts her furious lyrics straight into the camera in rapper-like fashion: "I keep your houses squeaky clean, but you all think I'm dirty!" In a dramatized scene in a slum, the women demonstrate how they'd
like to deal with a woman who doesn't pay her housekeeper enough. In response to the situation, the filmmakers make an appeal to change the rules of the world economy.
The Silent Monologue is a political film, a combative film and a film rooted in the artistic tradition displayed in the work of other Senegalese authors such as Ousmane Sembene, Djibril Diop Mambety and Safi Faye.
The Silent Monologue is the second film by Khady Sylla (pictured right) distributed by ArtMattan Productions. In her other film, Colobane Express, we observe 24 hours in the daily life of drivers and passengers of the public vans in Dakar.
Films exploring life in Senegal distributed by ArtMattan Productions are:
DVD sale: $245
Special offer: Purchase The Silent Monologue and Colobane Express for $345
Le monologue de la muette from Athénaïse on Vimeo.
African Films on DVD: Seasons of a Life & The Silent Monologue Now Available
SEASONS OF A LIFEDirector: Shemu Joyah
From: Malawi
Year: 2008- Minutes: 102 mins
Language : English
Genre: Drama
A housemaid, who is sexually abused by her boss and made pregnant, is forced to give up her son in order to go on with her education. Six years later she comes back to claim her son.
From Malawi comes this moving story about sexual abuse, women rights and the legal justice system in Malawi.
This film tackles universal themes in an African setting giving viewers an understanding of some of the modernization and democratization processes in Africa.
To order Seasons of a Life please contact ArtMattan Films at info@AfricanFilm.com or call (212) 864-1760.
DVD sale: $245
THE SILENT MONOLOGUELE MONOLOGUE DE LA MUETTE
Director: Khady Sylla and Charlie Van Damme
From: Senegal / Belgium
Year: 2008- Minutes:48mins
Language : French and Wolof with English subtitles
Genre: Docu-drama
Also now available is The Silent Monologue by Khady Sylla, official selection of the 2012 Locarno Film Festival.
In a voice-over, we hear the thoughts of Amy, a girl from a rural area of Senegal who works as a domestic for a well-to-do family in Dakar. She complains about her employer, who continuously criticizes her and gets on her case, and she talks about her dream of one day opening her own eatery. Meanwhile, we see her sweep the pavement, prepare the food and clean the house. The contrast with her vast and barren native region is enormous.
In Dakar, some 150,000 young women work as housekeepers for families whose daughters can go to school. "Why does the emancipation of some result in the servitude of others?" Amy wonders. The filmmakers interview other young maids who dream of going to school, and they film a woman who shouts her furious lyrics straight into the camera in rapper-like fashion: "I keep your houses squeaky clean, but you all think I'm dirty!" In a dramatized scene in a slum, the women demonstrate how they'd
like to deal with a woman who doesn't pay her housekeeper enough. In response to the situation, the filmmakers make an appeal to change the rules of the world economy.The Silent Monologue is a political film, a combative film and a film rooted in the artistic tradition displayed in the work of other Senegalese authors such as Ousmane Sembene, Djibril Diop Mambety and Safi Faye.
The Silent Monologue is the second film by Khady Sylla (pictured right) distributed by ArtMattan Productions. In her other film, Colobane Express, we observe 24 hours in the daily life of drivers and passengers of the public vans in Dakar.
Films exploring life in Senegal distributed by ArtMattan Productions are:- The Silent Monologue by Khady Sylla
- Colobane Express by Khady Sylla
- Almodou by Amadou Thior
- Return to Goree, by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud
DVD sale: $245
Special offer: Purchase The Silent Monologue and Colobane Express for $345
Le monologue de la muette from Athénaïse on Vimeo.
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