Tony Kadi Pipbara School for Organization
In “TCB – TONI CADE BAMBARA Organization”, Luis Masia and Monika Henriev have avoided the trap of many biographical filmmakers. It is difficult to capture a full life in less than two hours, prompting many experienced films to transfer the most prominent events similar to Wikipedia instead of formulating an echo.
Cade Bambara, who wrote imagination (“Gorilla My Love”, “Eat Salt”); Create documentaries about Oscar Micho Web de Boa; He was a prominent activist, literary editor and university professor, who had rich achievements that provide such a mystery. However, Masia and Henresaq tend to attract the essence of the life of Kadi Bambara’s life and their knowledge, making their movie an intimate story that many people who knew it well and loved it deeply. Consequently, the audience gets a vital feeling of how he feels that in the presence of Cadi Bambara.
The film, which won documentary prizes at the Blackstar Film Festival, begins with the childbara childhood in Harlem. She is moving time during her life in college, and how she formed her independence as a young woman in New York City before becoming a writer, respectable and wonderful animation – or as she described herself as a “culture factor”. A wide time is devoted to the 1970 -edited, “Black Women”, which included the writing of Audrey Lord, Nikki Giovanni and Alice Walker, which reflects the influence of the great book on generations of black thinkers. The film also captures Cade Bambara’s social and political impact on societies in loud black worlds such as Atlanta and Philadelphia, as well as its organizational work outside the United States, before anyone believed that this work is “global”.
But this is not a biography of the cradle to a dry. In fact, some major life features are mentioned in Cade Bambara and only major published works. However, the strength of the movie, as the title suggests, is that it brings to life a convincing study of how a life is worthy of attention by making a change in the individual community and in the world.
TCB – TONI CADE BAMBARA Organization uses a “arsenal of documentary tools: archive shots, sound recordings, photos and animation. However, what makes this documentary distinctive is the dynamic method in which these traditional methods are used. All of them are collected with the goal of showing the single life of Cade Bambara while maintaining its humanity and not reducing it to the state of worshiping the legend. After all, as the movie appears, it was a person who knew how to live with a abundance of freedom.
The greatest power on the side of the directors is to choose the people who chose to tell this story: the Kadi Bambara family and their friends; Writers, editors, historians and organizers who crossed the ways with them; People who were closely known. These people are also to be charismatic stories. The list of Nobel Prize -winning names includes Tony Morrison, film director Helei Jereima and the poet Nixaki Fini, among others. They know how spinning revolves around, how to build a legend, as well as managers. They are not only talking about their memories and faced with Kadi Bambara. Instead, they give live details about her personality. They describe her presence, hair and what she wears, aura for her. They talk about how she lived freely and how she taught others to live through her example of the way she moved in the world. As a result, you jump from the screen a completely adhered person and not just a literary and political pioneer.
Later in the movie, Masia shows himself on the screen. And while he spoke warm about the way Kadi Bambara met, the reason for making this film becomes very clear. The audience hears the love and reverence it carries for her, the sadness of her loss in his voice. She was a person who gave him an example of how to live. Now he passes on this example to inspire others. Although this could have been very serious in most other cases, Masia and Henresaq avoided this feeling through acute liberation that can distill life into an entertainment and educational narration.
Jerome Jennings music complements the visual images, as the audience was transferred to the time and places where Cadi Bambara lived. The film is not without its embarrassing moments. There are shots for Cade Bambara colleagues who look at old photos and try to appear normal while talking. Do not add a fun conversation in an editorial booth between three cultural historians watching it on the screen of any other context of other interviews facing the camera.
“TCB – Toni Cade Bambara Organization” lasted “until it ends, but it will come in time. Masé launched footage with the protagonist before her death in 1995. With a lot of conflict in the world, many need an example of how effective organization. The life of Cadi Bmbubra provides this.