Films
Screenings
drumming bodies dancing
Upcoming:
Friday, May 17th, 6pm
UCR Doundounba Festival 2024
RIFF Festival
Details: TBA
Past:
Sunday, January 28th 2024, 5pm
KAOS Network
4343 Leimert Boulevard. Los Angeles, CA 90008
Vidiots
Saturday, September 2nd 2023, 11am
4884 Eagle Rock Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90041
Decades ago at the beach in Senegal, I caught a glimpse of a sabar dancer and drummer at the beach. It electrified me. I felt compelled to return to see it.
The film - in collaboration with my Senegalese friends - is my exploration of the sabar culture, dancers and drummers and the joyful community it creates.
Producer Senegal Laye Diedhiou
Abdoulaye Diedhiou lives in M’Bour, Senegal. Producer of audiovisual projects and director of www.itourismetv.com, a website focused on tourisme. He is also the manager of the group “Xalaas”, traditional sabar dancers and drummers, based in Senegal.
Photo: Laye in front of a historic canon used during the slave trade on the Island of Goré near Dakar, now the site of the House of Slaves
Featuring Mané Ndiaye, Pape Ndiaye, Babacar Top.
Editor Bill Flicker.
Music by Seckou Keita and Omar Sosa.
This is the intimate and urgent story of a family
that must come together to steward their
ancestral home in the majestic Swiss Alps in the
face of urbanization and climate change. The
film follows owners, farmers and neighbors,
all with deep ties to this open wild that asks for
protection.
My father, a country doctor in Switzerland, reflects on his relationships with dying patients, his mother and life after death. He tells the story of his identification with Isaac and the death of my sister.
