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"Moi un noir is, in effect, the most daring of films and the humblest." — Jean-Luc Godard
“I feel that up to now two films of value have been made on Africa: your Moi, un Noir and Come Back Africa.” - Ousmane Sembene
Directed by Jean Rouch
Termed by Jean-Luc Godard “the best French film since the liberation,” Moi Un Noir is a fanciful experiment, depicting the lives of poor immigrants in the slum of Treichville, in the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Seeking to penetrate social realities of these lives, Rouch involved locals (including Oumarou Ganda) in scripting, acting and narrating scenes of daily dreams and disappointments. Upending assumptions about authorship and social science, Rouch’s approach here became a hallmark of his oeuvre and of “ethno-fiction” as a distinction in art and anthropology.
Digital video from 35mm, color, 70 min.
