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Inspired Art ~ WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN

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The Challenge

Inspired by the Pink Panther Magazine group

Scope: Tell me about the phrase “the heroism of modern life.” You’ve described that as intrinsic to your recent films, as well as your next one, The Brotherhood of Rats.

Ousmane Sembène (writer-director): I say that because in Africa there is a lot of daily heroism. For instance, we have seen on television many stories about refugees. If you look at those refugees, there are more women than men. In the cities, it is also the women who carry the weight. They take care of the education of the children, and they do that on a daily basis. Life is so harsh. People just get by one day at a time. As you know, the majority of Africans live on less than a dollar a day. For someone to go through that each day, and to keep her sense of honesty, is something very heroic. To manage to feed your children? That is heroic. To find clean drinking water? Also heroic.

Scope: Did you arrive at this by observation and analysis, or do you personally have an affinity for strong female figures?

Sembène: In Africa, we have a lot of strong women. I think that without that, we would have gone down the drain a long time ago. We have very, very strong women. They are the people who hold society together.

Scope: There’s the line from the poet, “Woman is the future of man…”

Sembène: From the poem by Louis Aragon, yes. In one of his poems, Aragon also says, “Woman is half of the sky.” I think that’s a beautiful sentence.

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