Cinéma/TV
Interview of Mahamat Saleh Haroun by Olivier Barlet
Translated by Céline Dewaele
You like calling African cinema the « cinema of schizophrenia ». Why is that? I’m referring to an article I wrote, entitled From militant cinema to schizophrenic cinema: it’s a cinema which, without saying it, leaves the scope of reality for entertainment under the cover of art house films. I’m not trying to be harsh but what is important is that they assume it: there is no bad cinema, all of us do what we can, but this kind of cinema is trying to get itself a public by referring to Hollywood cinema, without holding it up as an example. Besides that,…