Ousmane Sembene
One of the first films from Sub-Saharan Africa to make waves on the international stage, Black Girl remains nothing less than masterful.
The opening sequence of Ousmane Sembene’s Faat Kiné shows us the complexity of urban motion in a place where modernity and traditionalism are still somewhat at odds. We see groups of women in traditional Senegalese dress walking through the city of Dakar. Then, the camera pulls further and further away from them until we can see can see a whole city block.