“Cinema is an art, it is part of the history of the present time,” says Sarah Maldoror, the first anti-racist and decolonial African filmmaker. Theatre, fiction, documentary… Her work is poetic and political, rooted in the time and life of Sarah Maldoror from the 1950s and the liberation struggles of the three colonized continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
French, Sarah Maldoror was born in 1926 in the south-west of France to a father from Guadeloupe and a mother from Gers. She died in 2020 from Covid-19. Without God or master, Sarah Maldoror chose her artist name, her mode of expression and her fight.
With the participation of Annouchka de Andrade (daughter of Sarah Maldoror and Mario Pinto de Andrade) and François Piron, co-curator of the first exhibition devoted to Sarah Maldoror at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris from November 2021 to March 2022.