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Moi, un noir
FRANCE · 1958

Moi, un noir

Jean Rouch
migration and displacement labor and economic survival cultural identity colonial legacy urban life
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Synopsis

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.

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