Madeleine Beauséjour Explained

Madeleine Beauséjour (1946–1994) was a film editor and director from Réunion.

She was a co-founder of the activist organization Révolution Afrique.^[1] Her activist training activities and film efforts from the 1970s to the mid-1980s relfected a time marked by postcolonial racist crimes and struggles against “colonialism at home."^[2] She had links with international movements such as the Black Panthers, who financed her film project in Senegal at the end of the 1960s.^[3]

The 1988 short French-Creole film she directed Koman I le la sours portrayed the life of a young mother in the La Source district in Saint-Denis,^[4] whose house is used as a hangout by the local children.^[5]

Films

• Journées portes ouvertes à Drancy, 1972 (Révo Afrique (Madeleine Beauséjour, Claude Reznik, Jean Denis Bonan, and collaborators)^[6]
• Koman I le la Sours, 1988
• Johnny et Ombline (unfinished)

Notes and References

1. Dedieu . Jean-Philippe . Mbodj-Pouye . Aïssatou . 2018 . The Fabric of Transnational Political Activism: "Révolution Afrique" and West African Radical Militants in France in the 1970s . Comparative Studies in Society and History . 60 . 4 . 1172–1208 . 0010-4175.
2. Web site: 2023-02-18 . YA FRANÇA, YA FRANÇA . 2024-04-19 . sinematranstopia.com . en.
3. Web site: Non-Aligned Film Archives 08: Le cinéma manquant de Madeleine Beauséjour (The Missing Cinema of Madeleine Beauséjour) . 2024-04-19 . Open City Documentary Festival . en-US.
4. Karine Blanchon, Aperçu du cinéma sur l’île de la Réunion, Études océan Indien, Vol. 44 (2010). Accessed online 14 October 2019.
5. Book: Janis L. Pallister. French-speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide. 1997. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. 978-0-8386-3736-4. 15.
6. Web site: ICA Non-Aligned Film Archives 08Le cinéma manquant de Madeleine Beauséjour . 2024-04-19 . www.ica.art.