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The Life and Times of Sara Baartman  (1998)


N/A|16 Sept, 1998|53 min
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In 1810, 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat from Cape Town to London, unaware that she would never see her home again, or that she would become the icon of racial inferiority and black female sexuality for the next 100 years. Four years later, she became the object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about BFS. She died the next year, but even after her death, Sara remained an object of imperialist scientific investigation. In the name of Science, her sexual organs and brain were preserved and displayed in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris until as recently as 1985. Using historical drawings, cartoons, legal documents, and interviews with noted cultural historians and anthropologists, this documentary deconstructs the social, political, scientific, and philosophical assumptions that transformed one young woman into a representation of savage sexuality and racial inferiority.
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Keywords
anthropology
racism
female sexuality
19th century
ethnography
social & cultural documentary
scientific research
1800s
black woman
documentary short
historical documentary

Casts

Zola Maseko
Adrian Brown
Hlengiwe Farasani

Crews

Zola Maseko
Director
Christian Docin-Julien
Assistant Director
Giulio Biccari
Director of Photography
Karen Boswall
Sound
Robin Harris
Sound
Lise Beaulieu
Editor
Pops Mohamed
Music

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