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“The World Should be Open to Film”: an Interview with Idrissa Ouedraogo
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2018
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- Forum in Celebration of Idrissa Ouedraogo
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1. His subsequent 1997 film, Kini and Adams, was shot in Zimbabwe, with English-speaking South African and Zimbabwean actors.
2. In Le Monde de l’Education, for example, one French critic wrote that Ouedraogo would have done better not to “leave the landscapes and villages of his homeland” that were so “charming” in his previous works, and in Télérama, another stated that Ouedraogo “who stunned us with his African tales, fails to film French actors and landscapes.”
3. In the documentary, after a pirated copy of Yaaba is screened in the Ouagalese video parlour that Teno is filming, Teno visits Ouedraogo at his office. In the ensuing interview, Ouedraogo declares that the bootleggers and informal distributors are right to make his film available, as he neglected this type of local working-class audiences’ access to his works and the construction of a more locally-appropriate film economy, ending the interview on the essential question of why filmmakers make films, and for whom.
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