And the Dogs Were Silent (1976)

Sarah Maldoror · 13 min · Letterboxd ↗

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes profoundly aware of his otherness when condemned to death. His existential dialogue with his mother reverberates around the African sculptures on display at the Musée de l'Homme, a Parisian museum full of colonial plunder whose director was the Surrealist anthropologist Michel Leiris.

And the Dogs Were Silent screens 2 times at BFI Southbank between Saturday 12 September and Tuesday 22 September.