Tuesday, February 10th, 6 :30 pm
The Island of Women
(53 minutes, 2013)
film screening and talk in English with director Cécile Canut
on Cape Verdean traditional dancers
Tuesday, February 10th, 6 :30 pm
Cinema Studies Dept-Tisch-NYU,
721 Broadway, 6th floor Michelson Theater
Ja, a young woman from Cabral, never went elsewhere in “search her life” like so many others Cape Verdeans do. She never left her village. Ja decides to travel around her island, in order to meet women who, like her, are engaged in the amazing bodily practice of batuke. In the course of her journey, we discover the women who stay behind and who overcome together, through the artistic expression of batuke, the harshness and the acuity of separation.
**(Please note: this program will be in English)
Cécile Canut is a filmmaker, sociolinguist researcher, full professor at Sorbonne Paris Cité University, author of Une langue sans qualité and Le spectre identitaire, entre langue et pouvoir au Mali. Cécile Canut directed the project MIPRIMO (la migration prise aux mots / migration put in words), a French National Research Agency funded project about migration narratives in West Africa.