This module focuses on Djibril Diop Mambéty, Souleymane Cissé, Safi Faye and Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa as inventors of forms.
Learning goal
Study filmmakers who reinvent cinematic form through modernism, myth, light, rural speech, documentary and social critique.
Completed lessons
0/3
Course
Major African Filmmakers
Lesson list
Lesson 1
Analyze Mambéty through modernism, fragmented editing, sound, wandering and urban desire.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Analyze Mambéty through modernism, fragmented editing, sound, wandering and urban desire.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 2
Study Cissé through myth, light, political conflict, knowledge and transmission.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Study Cissé through myth, light, political conflict, knowledge and transmission.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 3
Compare Faye and Dikongué-Pipa through rural speech, documentary practice and social critique.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Compare Faye and Dikongué-Pipa through rural speech, documentary practice and social critique.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Open only when you are ready to apply this module. The complete prompts are preserved here.
Analyze a filmmaker's recurring formal strategy and connect it to meaning.
Expected output
A 500-word filmmaker form analysis.
Quiz structure
1 question are prepared to validate the core concepts of this module.
Source to review before public screening or classroom projection.
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