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 KalenderIntroduction: 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.
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