Three Drums and a Lion at Maitisong

Staff Writer | Tuesday March 25, 2014 11:53

This cine-concert Three Drums And A Lion will be held in Gaborone on March 26 at Maitisong, 7:00 pm.

This date is part of the Southern African tour of the Alliance Française’s network.  The project will visit four cities in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Botswana.

Three Drums is a realistic story told in a poetic mixture of movies.

 Alliance Française, Région Réunion, France Volontaire, European Union, Air Austral, French Institute, Braveheart and Maitisong sponsor it.

Jean Rouch and Christelle Enault are behind the three films. 

The 30-minute long Battle On The Great River (1958) and an extract Au Pays Des Mages Noirs (1947) are both by Rouch while Enault did a 10-minute animation film. 

Jean Rouch is a French film director and ethnologist, born May 31, 1917 in Paris and died on February 18, 2004 in Niger.

 He is well known for his practice of direct cinema and for his ethnographic films on African peoples such as the Dogon and their customs.

 Considered to be the creator of ethno-fiction, a sub-genre of docu-fiction, he is one of the theorists and founders of visual anthropology.

Coming from the Réunion Island from her father’s side, Christelle Enault is a talented illustrator working for several national magazines and newspapers. 

She lets the viewer into her remarkable, singular universe, which reminds us of the sacred, the ritual, the magic and the animal.