Gaston Kaboré
Gaston Jean -Marie Kaboré ( born April 23, 1951 in Bobo-Dioulasso, Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso) is a film maker from the West African nation of Burkina Faso.
Life
He combines the skills studied history at the " Centre d' Etudes d' Histoire Supérieures ' in ' Ouagadougou and completed his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris with the master from. During his studies, he dealt with how Africa was perceived from the outside. In 1974 he enrolled at the École supérieure d' études Cinematographiques in Paris to study one, which he successfully 1976 financial statements. Back in Africa, he was appointed director of the Institute African d' Education Cinematographique.
The cinematic works
After studying his feature film Wend Kuuni 1982 was a breakthrough for African cinema, with he brought the tradition of oral tradition on the screen because of the way. The film unrolls in epic episodes of the story of a foundling, in the Buud Yam (1997) as a young adult goes in search of his family of origin.
In the film, Zan Boko (1988 ) on the situation between two groups escalates dramatically. A modest, growing in self-esteem life in the country is Kaboré the corrupt methods pompous rich at a city extension counter. Although the end sit the economically powerful have more leverage, but are publicly exposed.
In Gaston's films always are women or children at the center. Rabi is, for example, of a 10- year-old boy playing with a turtle, they used as a toy, then begins to recognize them as independent beings, and finally dismisses freedom. But the film contains another story in which Rabi serves as a messenger: It is the disappointed love of the now old tobacco saleswoman vain for years to Pusga, which they had promised to wait. In the end, makes on the already frail Pusga to ask his former lover to forgive.
Kaboré shows in his films, working people: at work on the field, when Matt lichens, pottery and burning, forging or yams stomp. Gaston Kaboré leaves the viewer linger at the place and feel into him in the present situation. The sensitive eye of the camera draws the attention of the surroundings, of the people, their mood, their attitude, their hands and faces. The atmosphere in which immerses the audience, prepares subsequent action. More than dialogues drive the images moves the plot forward.
For his cinematic epic Buud Yam he was awarded in 1997 with the Pan-African film festival FESPACO.
Christoph Schlingensief is Gaston Kaboré on YouTube as " very likable, very emotional and subtle " before.
Imagine
He combines the skills, it is important to help Africa to its own cinematic expression. Since the late 90s, he devotes himself almost exclusively to teaching. And consequently, he founded the Centre in Ouagadougou IMAGINE for the education and training of young African filmmakers who are working in different fields, such as script, dramaturgy, film editing, sound, animation and multimedia. The lessons take place either in French or in English, and the seminar leaders come from all over the world. Its center built Gaston Kaboré over many years continually from. Today IMAGINE are three buildings with extensive living quarters for students and teaching staff available, as well as an open-air cinema in Ouagadougou.
Main entrance of the Institute Imagine