I, a Negro
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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.
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Jean Rouch Director · Joseph Yapi Degre Composer Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte Editor
First release March 12, 1959 · Produced in France · Original title Moi, un noir
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Les Films de la Pléiade
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France
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Original title
Moi, un noir
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French
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French
Release dates
France · March 12, 1959
Theatrical · Source: IMDB. Although the Prix Louis Delluc was awarded Dec 9th, 1958, the film was not released at this point: "Exempt de toutes considérations commerciales, il arrive que le prix Louis-Delluc honore un film qui n'est pas encore sorti en salles et affecte sa distribution comme en 1958 pour Moi, un Noir".
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