Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Spencer Museum of Art is hosting a screening of the Senegalese film “Moolaade.” The film tells the story of one woman protecting a village’s girls from female circumcision and the controversy her stand causes.
The screening, tonight at 6:00 p.m. is a supplement to the museum’s current exhibit “Earthly Vessels,” a collection of pottery from across Africa. Some of the pots are from Burkina Faso, where the movie takes place.
Some of the pieces show the recent use of plastic and other materials instead of clay.
Nancy Mahaney, curator for arts and culture of the Americas, Africa and Oceania, said the introduction of these new methods, and the controversy around them, are shown in the film as metaphor for cultural change.
“Bringing this filim is an effort to bring recognition to some of the cultural issues that people are dealing with in Africa,” Mahaney said. “The film focuses on female circumcision and the controversy surrounding it. If you watch the film carefully you’ll see some of the ways the pottery is a subtle underlying theme, how it represents the tradititonal culture.”
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