Bouna Medoune Seye Explained

Bouna Medoune Seye (Bouna Médoune Sèye)
Birth Date:	19 October 1956
Death Place:	Paris, France
Nationality:	Senegalese
Occupation:	painter, photographer, costume designer, film director, screen writer, film producer

Bouna Medoune Seye (also Bouna Médoune Sèye, 19 October 1956 – 27 December 2017) was a Senegalese painter, photographer, costume designer and filmmaker.^{[1] [2]} Born in Dakar, Senegal, he studied in Marseilles, France, and photographed the tramps on the streets of Dakar for five years. He then started out in cinema as an art director and later film director.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Filmography

Sèye was involved in a number of films including:^[6]

• 1994 Bandit Cinéma, short drama, 24 minutes, director and screen writer
• 1994 Flora Gomes: A Mascara (Le Masque), set photographer
• 1995 Saï Saï By – dans les Tapas de Dakar, 13 minutes, director
• 1995 Les pieds dans les rues de Dakar, director
• 1995 Gahité Fofana: Témèdi, art director
• 1996 Rouge feu, director
• 1997 Moussa Sene Absa: Tableau Ferraille, production designer
• 1998 Zone Rap, documentary, 52 minutes, director
• 2007 Léandre-Alain Baker: Ramata, costume designer

Exhibitions

Paintings

Source:

• 1993 Peinture Racine, Chambre Blanche Gallery, Quebec, Canada
• 2000 Heart Gallery, Paris
• 2002 Dakar Biennale
• 2005 Exhibition "This is happening", together with Pascal Nampémanla Traoré (Côte d'Ivoire), Dakar, Senegal

Photography

Source:

• 1992 co-organiser, Mois de la Photo(graphie) de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
• 1992 Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris
• 1994 Les Trottoirs de Dakar, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, and at Black Movie International Independent Film Festival Geneva
• 1997 Suites Africaines, Cordeliers Convent, Paris
• 1997 Les Trottoirs de Dakar, Evocos, Lisbon
• 1998 La cour de Joe, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, France
• 1998 with other photographers: L'Afrique par elle-même, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
• 1999 with other photographers: L'Afrique par elle-même, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
• 2001 African Photography Encounters, Bamako
• 2002 NRW Forum, Düsseldorf

Publication

• Book: Bouna Medoune Seye . 1994 . Les trottoirs de Dakar (Dakar sidewalks) . Paris . Editions Revue noire . 96 . 9782909571096. 51 photographs.^[7]

See also

• Cinema of Senegal

Notes and References

1. Web site: Urgent: Le cinéaste Bouna Médoune Sèye décédé à Paris . dakar92.com . 27 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180819164539/http://dakar92.com/urgent-cineaste-bouna-medoune-seye-decede-a-paris/ . 19 August 2018 . 7 July 2023 . French.
2. Web site: Expositions Bouna Medoune Seye. La cour de Joe du mercredi 27.05.1998 au dimanche 30.08.1998 . mep-fr.org . 1998 . Maison européenne de la photographie . 7 July 2023 . French.
3. Web site: Bouna Médoune Sèye . africine.org . 7 July 2023 . French.
4. Web site: Bouna Médoune, le cinéma par effraction et l'image en infusion . Thierno I. . Dia . imagesfrancophones.org . 2018 . Organisation internationale de la Francophonie . 7 July 2023 . French.
5. Web site: Entretien d'Olivier Barlet avec Bouna Medoune Sèye (Sénégal) . Olivier . Barlet . africine.org . 30 August 2002 . 7 July 2023 . French.
6. Web site: Bouna Medoune Seye 19 October 1956 – 27 December 2017. Director, Adaptation, Production Designer, Costume designer . unifrance.org . 2023 . Unifrance . 7 July 2023 .
7. Web site: Reviewed Works: Bouna Medoune Seye: Les trottoirs de Dakar. Dorris Haron Kasco: Les Fous d'Abidjan. John Liebenberg: Namibia. Cahiers d'Études Africaines, Vol. 36, Cahier 141/142, Images (1996), pp. 306–307 . jstor.org . 1996 . Yacouba Konaté . 7 July 2023 . French.