This module studies Haile Gerima, Abderrahmane Sissako and Mati Diop as filmmakers who work across diasporas, memory, borders and return.
Learning goal
Analyze diasporic and transnational filmmakers through memory, return, exile, borders, ghosts and restitution.
Completed lessons
0/3
Course
Major African Filmmakers
Lesson list
Lesson 1
Study Gerima through independent Black cinema, slavery memory, diaspora and self-determined production.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Study Gerima through independent Black cinema, slavery memory, diaspora and self-determined production.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 2
Analyze Sissako through exile, borders, waiting, silence and transnational politics.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Analyze Sissako through exile, borders, waiting, silence and transnational politics.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 3
Study Diop through return, ghosts, youth, migration, gender and restitution.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Study Diop through return, ghosts, youth, migration, gender and restitution.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Open only when you are ready to apply this module. The complete prompts are preserved here.
Map a filmmaker's movement across countries, institutions, production contexts and audiences.
Expected output
A circulation map with interpretive notes.
Quiz structure
1 question are prepared to validate the core concepts of this module.