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Chapter 13 · Burkina Faso

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CINEMA→ENDURANCE

Ouagadougou

(Cinema capital, the turn south)

11 NovBurkina Faso · the longest leglive

The cinema capital after the longest leg. What can moving image hold?

For whom? · By whom? · Under what care?

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Capture · By whom?

Record one moving-image fragment that admits the day it was made.

Sound note · 15 s

Record one moving-image fragment that admits the day it was made.

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The ◉ photo button records a fragment. Voice and note record the field decision around it.

What kind of trace is this? · 0 answers
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PhotoWritingFilmResearchPublic artTransdisciplinary

Provocation

What does the long leg here change about how we want to film a place?

Field log

Make one short moving-image fragment that could only have been made after a hard day's drive.

Route scaffolds: images and sound seeds↓

These are route scaffolds, not confirmed stops. Each point holds a Wikimedia image slot, a Freesound query and a blog prompt so the road can replace the estimate with lived material.

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Status
Estimated stop
Country
Burkina Faso
Leg
860 km from Bamako
Practice
Moving image

Cinema city

ASSEMBLYfragments, consent, return, public formArrival is an edit, not an ending

Film heritage and the road south

Ouagadougou, reached after the route's longest single leg, is the home of FESPACO, the continent's major film festival. The estimated stop foregrounds moving image as a way of knowing the city before the route turns south.

What success looks like

A careful fragment treats Ouagadougou as a centre of African cinema, not a fuel stop, and lets moving image lead.

For whom?

Whose film culture is this, and how does the archive defer to it?

By whom?

Record one moving-image fragment that admits the day it was made.

“Fatigue changes the frame. Let it.”
Counter-Atlas note
“A film festival city deserves more than a passing shot.”
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