About the coloniality of the thought in images and the reinvention of the negritude in the FESPACO: the major African festival cinema

• Autor(a) principal: de Oliveira, Maíra Zenun
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Rebeca (São Paulo)
• Texto Completo: https://rebeca.socine.org.br/1/article/view/384
• topic: Cinema Negro; Teoria Decolonial; Autorrepresentação; Pan-Africanismo

Since 1973, takes place in Burkina Faso, West Africa, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO). It is the largest and oldest audiovisual event in Africa, including the exhibition, awards and discussion of films produced throughout the African continent and its diasporic territories. It is a ritual event conceived by Burkinabé leaders of the anti colonial revolution of the 1960s, who perceived in the cinema like a form of struggle and liberation. The maintenance of a festival with all this expansion is justified, according to organizers of FESPACO, due to the enormous need that the African countries feel of deconstruction the images and memories produced by the colonial-capitalist world system, on Africa and its populations. Imaginary perpetrated by the perverse and solid emotional and sensorial legacy created by the colonial system. Therefore, in this article, I present the discussion that I have been developing since 2014, as a PhD research project in Sociology of Cinema, in which I investigate the role of FESPACO in the process of strengthening an African cinema that proposes to decolonize representations and discourses produced about the continent.