Madeleine Beauséjour

Madeleine Beauséjour (1946–1994) was a film editor and director from Réunion.

She was a co-founder of the activist organization Révolution Afrique.[1] Her activist training activities and film efforts from the 1970s to the mid-1980s relfected a time marked by postcolonial racist crimes and struggles against “colonialism at home."[2] She had links with international movements such as the Black Panthers, who financed her film project in Senegal at the end of the 1960s.[3]

The 1988 short French-Creole film she directed Koman I le la sours portrayed the life of a young mother in the La Source district in Saint-Denis,[4] whose house is used as a hangout by the local children.[5]

Films

  • Journées portes ouvertes à Drancy, 1972 (Révo Afrique (Madeleine Beauséjour, Claude Reznik, Jean Denis Bonan, and collaborators)[6]
  • Koman I le la Sours, 1988
  • Johnny et Ombline (unfinished)

References

  1. ^ Dedieu, Jean-Philippe; Mbodj-Pouye, Aïssatou (2018). "The Fabric of Transnational Political Activism: "Révolution Afrique" and West African Radical Militants in France in the 1970s". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 60 (4): 1172–1208. ISSN 0010-4175.
  2. ^ "YA FRANÇA, YA FRANÇA". sinematranstopia.com. 2023-02-18. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  3. ^ "Non-Aligned Film Archives 08: Le cinéma manquant de Madeleine Beauséjour (The Missing Cinema of Madeleine Beauséjour)". Open City Documentary Festival. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  4. ^ Karine Blanchon, Aperçu du cinéma sur l’île de la Réunion, Études océan Indien, Vol. 44 (2010). Accessed online 14 October 2019.
  5. ^ Janis L. Pallister (1997). French-speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-8386-3736-4.
  6. ^ "ICA | Non-Aligned Film Archives 08Le cinéma manquant de Madeleine Beauséjour". www.ica.art. Retrieved 2024-04-19.


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