Richard Brody on two New York revivals of the filmmaker Med Hondo’s work, which centered on French colonialism and how it has affected Africans for centuries.
Hondo, who died in 2019, made his films internationally—in France, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Tunisia—and he extended his attention to the African diaspora, whether in France or in French territories elsewhere, such as in the Caribbean. Hondo’s work shows French cinema to be African cinema because of the historical connection between France and Africa. From this central preoccupation, Hondo devises a distinctive and singular aesthetic, sharply personal yet historically informed.
Here, Hondo begins a large-scale recapitulation, in a handful of scenes, of the grimly infuriating history of French colonialism from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, and of a reliance on slave labor that lasted in the Caribbean colonies until the mid-nineteenth century. Ideologues and power-mongers of many sorts, from brazen Black profiteers in Paris to frivolous white do-gooders, fill the frame with their declamations.
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