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Moi, un Noir

Moi, un Noir

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 12, 1959

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

73%

Original Title

Moi, un noir

Production Companies

Les Films de la Pléiade

Director

Jean Rouch

Description

Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.