ANA MERCEDES HOYOS
France, Colombia | 2008 | 13 min | col. | o.v. Spanish
In her last work, Sarah Maldoror portrays Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos focusing on her deep-reaching dialogue with Afro-Colombian identity. Vivid colours, black faces, daily life reinvented on the canvas play a major role this double portrait, of Hoyos and the community she represents. Once again, Maldoror lets art speak and images tell the story. The encounter of two women who turned beauty into an act of justice and art into a loving gesture for the invisible. (L.F.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 06 Nov 2025
- Time: 11:00
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Sarah Maldoror
Sarah Maldoror (1929–2020) was a French director, Pan-African by adoption, revolutionary voice, and the first female filmmaker in African cinema. She chronicled the wars of liberation in the former Portuguese colonies, with a particular focus on the role of women in the struggle. After founding the first theater company of black actors in France, Les Griots, in 1956, she was assistant director to Pontecorvo for The Battle of Algiers in 1966, and then to William Klein for Festival panafricain d'Alger (1969). Her first feature film was also the first ever made by an African female director: Sambizanga (1972). Her other major works include her debut short film Monangambééé (1969), Aimé Césaire, un homme une terre (1976), Aimé Césaire – Le Masque des mots (1987), Portrait de Assia Djebar (1989), and Léon G. Damas (1994).
