Country: UK
Year: 1992
Duration: 52'
A woman rides her motorbike down streets full of traffic and noise. Her name is Obi Kam, she is the mother of four children, and after being repudiated by her husband she is obliged to re-invent a life for herself and work in the goldmines. She will open up a restaurant with the money earned from finding a few gold pepitas.In stages, Ouédraogo tells the story of the difficult existence of a woman. But he does it with his usual light touch. The film, produced for television, once again combines the didactic side (teaching ways of resisting family repression and everyday social obligations) with the pleasure of telling a story, of pausing over the details, the noises, the sounds. Here, his complicity with the leading character is total. Obi talks to the movie camera, to the troupe and in flashbacks describes parts of her life (already expressed in synthesis in the excellent credits), the hard work (in the goldmine set, which will explode in Kini & Adams) and the necessary and liberating sensuality of dancing (at the open air party with the orchestra, the songs and the dances).
Biography
film director
Idrissa Ouédraogo
Idrissa Ouédraogo was born in Banfora, Burkina Faso in 1954. He graduated from the African Film Studies Institute in Ouagadougou. He then worked in the governing board of the Film Production of Burkino Faso in 1981. He remained for a period in Kiev. In 1985 he graduated from IDHEC in Paris. He then received a degree in film studies at the University of Paris at the Sorbonne.
FILMOGRAFIA
Poko (cm, 1981), Les Écuelles (cm, 1983), Les Funérailles du Larlé Naaba (co-regia di Pierre Rouamba, cm, 1984), Ouagadougou, Ouaga deux roues (cm, 1985), Issa le tisserand (cm, 1985), Tenga (cm, 1985), Yam Daabo (1986), Yaaba (1989), Tilaï (1990), A Karim na Sala (tv, 1991), Obi (mm, tv, 1991), Samba Traoré (1992), Gorki (cm, tv, 1993), Le cri du cœur (1994), Afrique, mon Afrique (mm, 1994), Kini & Adams (1997), Les Parias du cinéma (cm, 1997), Scénarios du Sahel: Le Guerrier (cm, 1997), Scénarios du Sahel: La Boutique (cm, 1997), Scénarios du Sahel: Pour une fois (cm, 1997), Pleurs de femmes (cm, video, 1999), Kadi Jolie (cm, video, 1999).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Idrissa Ouédraogo.
Director of photography: Jean Monsigny.
Sound: Issa Traoré.
Editor: Rosemary Evans Decraene.
Cast: Obi Kam, Hypolite Ouangrawa, Suzanne Abi Kamboule, Khady Djibo, Youyou Kam, Daourou Kam. Music: Famille Bassave, Les Larlé Naaba.
Production company: Fragile Films Productions per Channel Four.
Director of photography: Jean Monsigny.
Sound: Issa Traoré.
Editor: Rosemary Evans Decraene.
Cast: Obi Kam, Hypolite Ouangrawa, Suzanne Abi Kamboule, Khady Djibo, Youyou Kam, Daourou Kam. Music: Famille Bassave, Les Larlé Naaba.
Production company: Fragile Films Productions per Channel Four.