Moussa Sene Absa on finding Waru in Barbados

Jane Bryce interviews Senegalese filmmaker, Moussa Sene Absa, at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, where she works and he is a visiting lecturer. She asks what drew Moussa back to Barbados, which he visited for the first time as a guest of the Festival of African and Caribbean Film, which she codirected. The interview reveals Moussa’s sense of mission, his desire to awaken in his Barbadian students a capacity for wonder at their own world. He deplores a concept of filmmaking which exclusively references Hollywood, emphasizing the dynamism of popular culture. He points to its potential for a local film aesthetic, encompassing both the material—visual and aural—and the intangible—modes of self-perception, self-construction, and self-evaluation. Bryce views and comments on a new documentary, in which Moussa explores how a boatload of Senegalese economic refugees ended up off the coast of Barbados

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