I, a Negro

Name: I, a Negro
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1959
Duration: 70 min
Cast: Oumarou Ganda, Petit Touré, Alassane Maiga, Amadou Demba, Gambi

1959

1h 10min

Documentary

Be the first to rate it

Overview

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.