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.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Louis Delluc Prize (1958)
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Setting
Set in Abidjan
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Jean Rouch
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Jean RouchWriter
- Original title
- Moi, un noir
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 12, 1959
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France
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