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Film still from BAMAKO: An improvised courtroom scene in the open air. In the foreground a woman in a judge

Wed 16.10.
20:00

  • Director

    Abderrahmane Sissako

  • France, Mali, USA / 2006
    118 min. / DCP / Original version with English subtitles

  • with

    Aïssa Maïga

  • Original language

    Bambara, French

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender
  • Introduction: Tom Holert and Doreen Mende (Harun Farocki Institut)

A courtyard in Bamako becomes the courtroom of a fictitious trial that the citizens of the capital of Mali are conducting against the neo-colonial policies of ‘structural adjustment’ enacted by the World Bank, the IMF and other international donors, as well against the governments of African states. The trial shares the filmic space with a western and other narrative inserts and components. With his highly self-conscious, docu-realist film BAMAKO, Abderrahmane Sissako conceived an early example of the ‘tribunalism’ that around the same time started to occur in contemporary art and performance venues.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media