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TWO BY ONE PROGRAM KHADY SILLA Monday, Nov. 30 @ 6:30PM - Anthology THE SILENT MONOLOGUE/ US PREMIERE Senegal, Dakar, the dawn of the 21st century. Guéro, a young girl exiled from the countryside where she grew up, works as a maid who is at the beck and call of a family living in the poor suburbs of Dakar. Guéro talks to us about her life as a maid in a long monologue full of contained rebelliousness and a desire to escape. A strange mixture of documentary and dramatized fiction, the film uses Guéro’s case as a starting point from which to explore the economic and social conditions that make it possible for women to live in such extreme servitude. It is a reality which one finds hard to accept, and yet it is imposed almost as a way of life. As one of the women in the film says: “This story takes place in Dakar, which is to say, pretty much everywhere, and it’ll take much more than good intentions to make it a part of the past.” By Khady Sylla and Charlie Van Damme, Senegal/Belgium/France, 2008, 45 min, French and Wolof with English subtitles. Shown with Colobane Express. Shown with Colobane Express |