Senegalese film director
Bouna Medoune Seye (Bouna Médoune Sèye)
Born (1956-10-19 ) 19 October 1956Died 27 December 2017(2017-12-27) (aged 61)Paris, France
Nationality Senegalese Occupation(s) painter, photographer, costume designer , film director, screen writer, film producer
The set of Seye's first short film Bandit Cinéma in front of the Corona cinema, Dakar, 1992. A scene of Bandit Cinéma , 1992. Bouna Medoune Seye (also Bouna Médoune Sèye, 19 October 1956 – 27 December 2017) was a Senegalese painter, photographer, costume designer and filmmaker.[ 1] [ 2] art director and later film director.[ 1] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
Filmography
Sèye was involved in a number of films including:[ 3] [ 6]
1994 Bandit Cinéma , short drama, 24 minutes, director and screen writer
1994 Flora Gomes : A Mascara (Le Masque) , set photographer
1995 Saï Saï By – dans les Tapas de Dakar , 13 minutes, director
1995 Les pieds dans les rues de Dakar , director
1995 Gahité Fofana : Témèdi , art director
1996 Rouge feu , director
1997 Moussa Sene Absa : Tableau Ferraille , production designer
1998 Zone Rap , documentary, 52 minutes, director
2007 Léandre-Alain Baker : Ramata , costume designer
Exhibitions
Paintings
Source:[ 3]
1993 Peinture Racine, Chambre Blanche Gallery, Quebec, Canada
2000 Heart Gallery, Paris
2002 Dakar Biennale
2005 Exhibition "This is happening", together with Pascal Nampémanla Traoré (Côte d'Ivoire ), Dakar, Senegal
Photography
Source:[ 3]
1992 co-organiser, Mois de la Photo(graphie) de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
1992 Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris
1994 Les Trottoirs de Dakar , Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève , and at Black Movie International Independent Film Festival Geneva
1997 Suites Africaines , Cordeliers Convent , Paris
1997 Les Trottoirs de Dakar , Evocos, Lisbon
1998 La cour de Joe , Maison européenne de la photographie , Paris, France[ 2]
1998 with other photographers: L'Afrique par elle-même , Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
1999 with other photographers: L'Afrique par elle-même , Smithsonian Institution , Washington, D.C. and Iziko South African National Gallery , Cape Town
2001 African Photography Encounters , Bamako
2002 NRW Forum , Düsseldorf
Publication
Bouna Medoune Seye (1994). Les trottoirs de Dakar (Dakar sidewalks) . Paris: Editions Revue noire. p. 96. ISBN 9782909571096 [ 7]
See also
References
^ a b "Urgent: Le cinéaste Bouna Médoune Sèye décédé à Paris" . dakar92.com (in French). 27 December 2017. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2023 .^ a b "Expositions Bouna Medoune Seye. La cour de Joe du mercredi 27.05.1998 au dimanche 30.08.1998" . mep-fr.org (in French). Maison européenne de la photographie. 1998. Retrieved 7 July 2023 .^ a b c d "Bouna Médoune Sèye" . africine.org (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2023 .^ Dia, Thierno I. (2018). "Bouna Médoune, le cinéma par effraction et l'image en infusion" . imagesfrancophones.org (in French). Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. Retrieved 7 July 2023 . ^ Barlet, Olivier (30 August 2002). "Entretien d'Olivier Barlet avec Bouna Medoune Sèye (Sénégal)" . africine.org (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2023 . ^ "Bouna Medoune Seye 19 October 1956 – 27 December 2017. Director, Adaptation, Production Designer, Costume designer" . unifrance.org . Unifrance. 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023 .^ Yacouba Konaté (1996). "Reviewed Works: Bouna Medoune Seye: Les trottoirs de Dakar. Dorris Haron Kasco: Les Fous d'Abidjan. John Liebenberg: Namibia. Cahiers d'Études Africaines, Vol. 36, Cahier 141/142, Images (1996), pp. 306–307" . jstor.org (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2023 .
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