Bye Bye The Lexicon, bonjour The Lexicion !
C’est la fin du Lexicon comme vous le connaissez, en avril c’est un nouveau format et un nouveau contenu heberge par Line super plateforme qui vous recevrez. Les details seront bientot devoiler. Et pour finir, I’extraordinaire Saidiya V. Hartman dont I’un des livres [Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route] sort bientot (enfin !!) en frangais traduit par Maboula Soumahoro.

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On January 14th, Alice Diop was presenting her most recent film at the NYC Film Forum and the Africa Center. Critics and international festivals have praised Alice Diop’s first feature film for its cinematography, narrative, and acting. After earning the Lion of the Future and the Golden Lion at Venice, Saint Omer won the César of best first film at the 48th César ceremony on Friday, February 24. Saint Omer displayed a lexicon of shadowiness mastering the art of fragments—a cinematographic embodiment of Saidiya Hartman’s ‘critical fabulation’ methodology coined in her essay “Venus in Two Acts.”1 Although Saint Omer cannot be reduced to an “inspired by real-life” film, the film offers an acute awareness of Black subjectivities, silence, and its shadows.

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