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Aboubakar Sanogo received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. He is cross-appointed with the Institute of African Studies (IAS), the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) and the Curatorial Studies Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Sanogo\u2019s work is located both inside and outside academia and seeks to intervene in both spaces in a mutually transformative manner. It involves research, teaching, film curation, policy making, and institution building. His research interests include African and Afro-diasporic cinemas, documentary film theory, history and form, transnational and world cinemas, film preservation and restoration, colonial cinema, early and silent cinema, and film festival studies. He is currently working on completing two manuscripts, The History of Documentary in Africa<\/em> and The Indocile Image: The Cinema of Med Hondo<\/em>, and an edited collection on the cinema of Med Hondo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since his arrival at Carleton, Aboubakar Sanogo has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Africa cinema, documentary film theory, history and aesthetics, cinema and human rights, the cinemas of Billy Wilder and Steven Soderbergh, the history of world cinema, and film festivals and world cinema. He also organized and taught a study-abroad course entitled African Cinema on Location<\/a><\/strong>, held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an established film curator, Aboubakar Sanogo has curated film programs domestically and internationally, including for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Cinematheque, the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the Il Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival in Bologna, Italy and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. In 2017, he was invited to be a member of the international jury at the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Carleton, he curated a retrospective of the cinema of Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo entitled The Indocile Image: The Cinema of Med Hondo<\/em>, which included the first-ever symposium on the director\u2019s work<\/a>, and the first Canadian retrospective of the cinema of Ren\u00e9 Vautier entitled Citizen Vautier: Cinema in the Age of Decolonization: Activism and Aesthetics-An Homage to Ren\u00e9 Vautier<\/em> (1928-2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanogo is the founder of Carleton University\u2019s World Cinema Forum and of the annual African Film Festival of Ottawa (AFFO). He is also the North American Regional Secretary for the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI), Africa\u2019s most important filmmakers\u2019 organization. In this capacity, Aboubakar Sanogo is currently working on the African Film Heritage Project<\/strong> (AFHP),<\/strong> a partnership between FEPACI, Martin Scorsese\u2019s Film Foundation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which seeks to preserve and restore 50 African films of historical, cultural and artistic significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanogo has also organized and taken part in master classes with world-renowned and emerging directors, including John Akomfrah, Patricio Guzman, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Fanta Nacro, and Gaston Kabore. View Aboubakar Sanogo\u2019s master class with Med Hondo: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TA_cH-Bou2g&t=236s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanogo has given invited talks at the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), the Wexner Art Center (Columbus, Ohio), FESPACO (Ouagadougou), the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View Aboubakar Sanogo\u2019s guest lecture at the Cineteca di Bologna: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WNxI96eGMGg&list=PLx3uAGILdftAgDkjgyYnA-WJGCQqW8sg2&index=22<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

View Aboubakar Sanogo\u2019s appearance at TIFF Higher Learning: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oymi18Tn6XY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, Aboubakar Sanogo has received a SSHRC Insight Grant, a Smithsonian Institution Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Fellowship. He is co-researcher in the Technes Research project, a SSHRC Funded international research partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Academic Publications: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfrica in the World of Moving Image Archiving: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century.\u201d Forthcoming in the Journal of Film Preservation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImages\/Imaginings\/Imaginaries: Historicizing Contemporary African Cinema at the Turn of the Third Millennium.\u201d Forthcoming in the Ninth Volume of UNESCO\u2019s General History of Africa<\/em>, a project initiated by founders of African historiography including the late Joseph Ki-Zerbo and Cheikh Anta Diop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Indocile Image: Cinema and History in Med Hondo\u2019s Soleil O<\/em> and Les Bicots-N\u00e8gres, Vos Voisins<\/em>\u201d in Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice<\/em>. 19:4, 2015:548-568 \u201cStudying African Cinema and Media Today.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em>, 54, No.2, Winter 2015:114-119<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCertain Tendencies in Contemporary Auteurist film Practice in African Cinema.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em>, 54, No.2, Winter 2015: 140-149<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReconsidering the Sembenian Project: Towards Aesthetics of Change.\u201d Published in Ukadike, Frank (ed.). Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse. <\/em> Lanham (MD): Lexington Books, 2014, pp. 209-226.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMuseums Also Die: The Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly and the Mask of the Contemporary\u201d in Moving Image Review and Art Journal. <\/em>No. 2.1 (2013): 91-96<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Shokuminchi teki shikakusei no keisu sutadi–Bantu kyoiku eiga jikken.” Ecce<\/em>. No. 3. Tokyo: Shinwasha, 2012, pp. 104-138.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cColonialism, Visuality and the Cinema: Revisiting the Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment\u201d in Grieveson, Lee and Colin McCabe (eds.). Empire and Film<\/em>. London: Palgrave McMillan, 2011, pp. 227-245.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRegarding Cinephilia in Africa.\u201d Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media<\/em>. 50.1 & 2 (2009): 226-228.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aboubakar Sanogo has also contributed articles, reviews and interviews to The Africa Report<\/em> and Sight and Sound<\/em> (https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/sight-sound-magazine\/comment\/obituaries\/idrissa-ouedraogo-burkinabe-master-political-poetic<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Press and Media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aboubakar Sanogo\u2019s work is the subject of frequent press coverage, including television, radio, newspapers and the online press. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/10\/africa\/martin-scorsese-african-film-heritage-project-unesco-fepaci\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indiewire http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/06\/scorsese-african-film-heritage-project-unesco-fepaci-1201840260\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Movie Maker Magazine https:\/\/www.voaafrique.com\/a\/martin-scorsese-signe-un-accord-avec-unesco-et-fepaci-pour-restaurer-les-films-africains\/3901923.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CBC http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/african-film-heritage-scorsese-ottawa-1.4211196<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio Canada International http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/fr\/2017\/08\/15\/retrouver-des-classiques-du-cinema-africain-la-quete-du-professeur-aboubakar-sanogo-de-luniversite-carleton\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Voice of America https:\/\/www.voaafrique.com\/a\/martin-scorsese-signe-un-accord-avec-unesco-et-fepaci-pour-restaurer-les-films-africains\/3901923.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Globe and Mail https:\/\/beta.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/film\/meet-martin-scorseses-partner-in-saving-african-cinema\/article35817160\/?ref=http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com&<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cColonialism, Visuality and the Cinema: Revisiting the Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment\u201d in Empire and <\/em>Films, eds. Lee Grieveson and Colin McCabe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: 227-245<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cRegarding Cinephilia and Africa\u201d in Framework<\/em>, vol 50, nos 1&2, spring &fall 2009: 226-228<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smithsonian Institution (National Museum of African Art), three major film series : \u201c Great African Films of the 90s\u2019 (1998), The Cinema of Cote d\u2019Ivoire (1999) and South African Cinema: Past, Present and Future\u201d (1999)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smithsonian Institution (Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage): \u201cMalian Cinema on the Mall\u201d  (2003)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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