Sylvaine Dampierre
Sylvaine Dampierre | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs |
| Notable work | Le Pays à l’envers (2005) Paroles de Nègres (2020) |
| Website | https://sylvainedampierre.com/ |
Sylvaine Dampierre is a French documentary filmmaker of Guadeloupean descent. Her film Paroles de Nègres (2020) was awarded the International Critics’ Award at the international documentary film festival Dok Leipzig and the Best Feature Documentary Award at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF).
Biography
Dampierre studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and joined Ateliers Varan in 1993. She worked as a film editor until 1998.[1] In 1998, Dampierre created an internal television channel at the La Santé Prison in Paris, France.[2]
Dampierre's father was born in Guadeloupe and her documentary Le Pays à l’envers [fr] (2005) explores the time of slavery in the archipelago and traces her family name.[3][4][5] In 2010, Dampierre founded the non-profit audiovisual training company Varan Caraïbe in Guadeloupe with Gilda Gonfier.[6][7]
Dampierre's film Paroles de Nègres (2020)[8][9] was awarded the International Critics’ Award at the international documentary film festival Dok Leipzig and the Best Feature Documentary Award at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF).[6]
Dampierre has also collaborated with photographer Bernard Gomez on the design of photography books.[6]
Filmography
- Un Enclos (1999)[10]
- Pouvons-nous vivre ici? (2002), about French scientists working at Chernobyl[11]
- Green Guérilla (2003)[7][12]
- Le Pays à l’envers [fr] (2005)[3][4][5][13]
- Piazza mora (2013)
- Paroles de Nègres (2020),[8][9] awarded the International Critics’ Award at the international documentary film festival Dok Leipzig and the Best Feature Documentary Award at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF)[6]
References
- ↑ "L'ACID - Sylvaine Dampierre". Le site de l'ACID - Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sylvaine Dampierre : sa biographie, filmographie, et quelques photos". Cinefil.com (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- 1 2 Mandelbaum, Jacques (28 April 2009). ""Le Pays à l'envers" : la Guadeloupe et sa mémoire esclave". Le Monde.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 24 March 2025. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- 1 2 Agier, Michel; Cécile, Christian (2009). "la liane guadeloupéenne". Vacarme (in French). 47 (2): 92–93. doi:10.3917/vaca.047.0092. ISSN 1253-2479.
- 1 2 Kloß, Sinah Theres; Gremels, Andrea; Schmieder, Ulrike (2 February 2026). Competing Memories of Enslavement, Emancipation and Indentureship: The Politics of Remembering in the Caribbean. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 181–182. ISBN 978-3-11-222493-9.
- 1 2 3 4 "Sylvaine Dampierre". Manifest. 10 March 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- 1 2 "Dampierre Sylvaine". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- 1 2 Le, Phuong (12 March 2023). "Words of Negroes review – sorcery trial documentary raises ghosts of slavery". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- 1 2 "Au FIFAC, la cinéaste Sylvaine Dampierre ravive la mémoire des esclaves de Marie-Galante". France Culture (in French). 11 October 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ↑ Connell, Lisa (2020). "Self-Narrative, the Law, and Garden Spaces in Sylvaine Dampierre's Un Enclos". French Forum. 45 (3): 349–364. ISSN 0098-9355 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Connell, Lisa (22 May 2024). "Cartographies of Health in Sylvaine Dampierre's "Pouvons-nous vivre ici"?". Crossways Journal. 5 (1). ISSN 2560-6425. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ↑ "Projection du film "Green Guerilla" de Sylvaine Dampierre". Ville du Gosier - Guadeloupe (in French). 2 August 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ↑ AlloCine. Le Pays à l'envers (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2026 – via www.allocine.fr.