Madubuko Diakité / 1972 / USA / Documentary / 27 min
Focusing on the Civil Rights Movement and a 1970 protest in New York, For Personal Reasons was inspired by the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. An innovative mix of fact and fiction—a kind of critical fabulation—it juxtaposes militant speech with avant-garde jazz. The film won an Honorable Mention at the Grenoble Film Festival in 1973.
For Personal Reasons (1973) streams from April 4–18 alongside The Invisible People(1972), two short films by Madubuko Diakité presented under the title “To Dig Where You Stand,” e-flux Video & Film’s special feature of CinemAfrica Retrospective Edition 2022, and accompanied by a recorded conversation between curator and CinemAfrica Program Group member Mmabatho Thobejane, CinemAfrica programmer Christian Rossipal, and e-flux’s Lukas Brasiskis.
