Released
Léon G. Damas
May 2 1995 (almost 30 years ago)Rating
90
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1 review
- Director: Sarah Maldoror
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 26 m
- Country: France
- Companies: Matouba Film, Conseil Regional de Guyane
Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist Léopold Sédar Senghor. Cosmopolitan and always in transit, his writing is a chorus of melodies and imagery imbued with angst and melancholy and strongly influenced by jazz and blues. Punctuated by images of the landscapes of French Guiana and the voice of the artist, the film exemplifies the poetic documentary form to which Maldoror frequently returned.
