And the Dogs Were Silent

And the Dogs Were Silent

1976 · Movie · 13m

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For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes profoundly aware of his otherness when condemned to death. His existential dialogue with his mother reverberates around the African sculptures on display at the Musée de l'Homme, a Parisian museum full of colonial plunder whose director was the Surrealist anthropologist Michel Leiris.

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colonialismessay filmblack historytheatre companypanafricanismaimé césaire