Steve Macfarlane writing in Hyperallergic:
The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of the works of Moustapha Alassane is every bit the breakthrough it appears to be.
Despite the current economy of hot takes and googleable insta-expertise, there are still occasions when the task of critic is sufficiently daunting: the first-ever North American retrospective of Niger-born filmmaker Moustapha Alassane (who died in 2015) is one of them. The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) series Moustapha Alassane, Pioneer of the Golden Age of Nigerien Cinema, running this weekend, is every bit the breakthrough it appears to be, though it must be pointed out that the nine works being shown represent only a fraction of the filmmaker’s four decades’ worth of output...[more]
Moustapha Alassane, still from “Kokoa” (2001)
