Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year: 1985
Duration: 18'
A look at Lumière, at the cinema that surprises people walking here in the chaos of the traffic of Burkina Faso's capital. Ouédraogo explores and penetrates a place. He falls in love with it as he gathers in its pleasures and contradictions. Bodies without names cross some space for a short period in order to then disappear off screen. We do not know anything about them, but without their presence the film can no longer exist. This is the way that the starting off point of a documentary is crossed out immediately.
Ouagadougou, Ouaga deux roues is an on-the-road symphony of noises and sounds without dialogues. It is one of the most enlightened works of all the cinema of Ouédraogo. On this occasion he films situations without commenting on them with tenderness and cruelty. He stops over particularities. He extracts details to be investigated for a time - a blow torch, an animal, a line of motor bikes. This is a hypnotic vision where the protagonists are the people, but they are also the massive number of motorcycles and bicycles, the open work sites, the bulldozers that dig, the earth and the dust (to anticipate the disembowelled earth of Kini & Adams) and the puddles where feet and means of transportation sink. Until ecstasy.
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: Idrissa Ouédraogo.
Screenplay: François Sannon.
Director of photography: Issaka Thiombiano.
Editor: Arnaud Blin.
Sound: Issa Traore.
Music: Augé Kabore.
Screenplay: François Sannon.
Director of photography: Issaka Thiombiano.
Editor: Arnaud Blin.
Sound: Issa Traore.
Music: Augé Kabore.