THE CURATORS QUADERNO - Issue 7

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Enjoy the seventh issue of The Curators’ Quaderno, ‘Revolution on Film’, created in conjunction with the 66^th edition of Europe’s earliest documentary film festival, Festival dei Popoli (November 1 to 9 2025), whose diamond-point event is a multi-screening tribute to filmmaker Sarah Maldoror.

According to tribute curator Ludovica Fales, “This retrospective is an invitation to make space. To get to know a pioneer who paved the way for African, anti-colonial and feminist cinema, often ignored by official histories. It is an opportunity to revisit powerful and tender films, such as Sambizanga and Monangambééé, but also to discover her lesser-known works, documentaries, artist portraits and short but thought-provoking works. Sarah never separated struggle from beauty. In her films, revolution is not only conflict, but also song, the body, the gaze. She teaches us that we can resist with gentleness, that we can speak of horror without becoming complicit in voyeurism.”

The Curators’ Quaderno is a collection of notebook-style publications, conceived by Calliope Arts, in collaboration with The Florentine Press, to raise awareness of women’s contributions to the fields of art, science and social history.

Subscribe to The Florentine to find upcoming issues of the publication included for free quarterly. Non-subscribers can purchase the notebook here.