{"id":1436,"date":"2016-03-15T23:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T23:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:18:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:18:51","slug":"1436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2016\/1436\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton hosts one of the most influential figures in World Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton hosts one of the most influential figures in World Cinema\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Med Hondo is not only one of the foundational figures of African cinema, but also one of the most talented, radically versatile and profoundly influential directors from the continent. A retrospective and international symposium on his cinema recently brought the pioneering filmmaker to Carleton and the National Gallery of Canada.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/people\/sanogo-aboubakar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aboubakar Sanogo<\/a><em>, Chair of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Film Studies<\/em><\/a><em> and organiser of<\/em> <em>the <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/event\/indocile-image-cinema-med-hondo\/\" target=\"_blank\">retrospective and symposium<\/a><\/em><em>, shared his reflections on the <\/em><em>first Canadian homage to Med Hondo\u2019s work<\/em><em> with <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/danielmcneil\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Daniel McNeil<\/em><\/a><em>, an <\/em><em>Associate Professor of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>History<\/em><\/a><em> and Carleton\u2019s strategic hire in <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Migration and Diaspora Studies<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read their conversation about the first Canadian homage to Med Hondo&#8217;s work&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/story\/med-hondo-cinema\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Med Hondo at the entrance of the National Gallery of Canada before the opening of the retrospective on his cinema.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0108.jpg\" alt=\"Med Hondo at Carleton University\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Culture at the opening of the Med Hondo retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada (February 22, 2016). From left to right: Ming Tiampo (ICSLAC); Aubrey Anable (Film Studies); Malini Guha (Film Studies); Aboubakar Sanogo (Film Studies); Med Hondo; Kumru Bilici (Film Studies-MA)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0119.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Med Hondo is not only one of the foundational figures of African cinema, but also one of the most talented, radically versatile and profoundly influential directors from the continent. A retrospective and international symposium on his cinema recently brought the pioneering filmmaker to Carleton and the National Gallery of Canada. 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