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Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Nato il 31 gennaio 1925 a Porto-Novo, Benin. Deceduto il 4 novembre 1987.

Biografia

Benin-born, Senegal-raised filmmaker, theorist, and historian Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was a key figure, as both practitioner and thinker, in the creation and articulation of what a post-colonial African cinema would and could be. Along with producing essential texts like “Film and the Problem of Lang...