Timité Bassori

Timité Bassori
Bassori in 2020
Born (1933-12-30) 30 December 1933 (age 90)[1][2]
Aboisso, Ivory Coast, French West Africa
Alma materCollege Technique d'Abidjan
Cours Simon
Institut des hautes études cinématographiques
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, actor, writer
Notable workThe Woman with the Knife

Timité Bassori (born 30 December 1933) is an Ivorian filmmaker, actor, and writer. His lone feature-length film, The Woman with the Knife (1969), is considered a classic of African cinema,[3] and is slated to be restored as part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative to preserve 50 African films through the collaboration of the groups FEPACI, UNESCO, Cineteca di Bologna, and Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation. The film is earmarked to be shown along with 4 other restored films at the 2019 film festival FESPACO.[4]

Biography

Timité Bassori is one of the pioneers of Ivorian cinema. Of Mandé-Dioula origin, he was born on December 30, 1933, in Aboisso in the extreme south-east of Côte d'Ivoire; After attending elementary school there. in 1949, he entered the Technical College of Abidjan, commercial section. he completed his studies in 1952 and worked in various commercial establishments. Wanting to do theater, he left for PARIS; first at Cours Simon from 1956 to 1957 then at the Center d'Art Dramatique on rue Blanche from 1957 to 1958. President of the Compagnie d'Art Dramatique des GRIOTS, which he founded in 1957 with student friends.[5]

The film Bouka (Roger Gnoan M'Bala, 1988) is based upon his short story "Jeux dangereux" (1974).[6]

Filmography

As director

  • The Foresters (documentary; 1963)
  • Abidjan-Niger (documentary; 1963)
  • Amédée Pierre (documentary; 1963)
  • On the Dune of Solitude (1964)
  • The Sixth Furrow (1966)
  • Bush Fires (1967)
  • The Woman with the Knife (1969)
  • Abidjan, the Lagoon Pearl (1971)
  • Bondoukou, Year 11 (1971)
  • Odienné, Year 12 (1972)
  • Kossou 1 (1972)
  • Kossou 2 (1974)
  • The Akati Fellows (1974)[1]

As producer

As assistant director

Literature

  • 1974: Les Bannis du village
  • 1983: Grelots d'or
  • 1986: Les eaux claires de ma source

Notes

  1. ^ a b Shiri 1992, p. 29
  2. ^ British Film Institute
  3. ^ Agence Ivorienne de Presse 2014
  4. ^ Page 2017
  5. ^ BACHY, VICTOR (1983). LE CINEMA EN COTE D'IVOIRE. Imprimerie Meddens/Gutenberg/ Belgique: EDITIONS OCIC/L'HARMATTANT. p. 36. ISBN 2-85-802276-3.
  6. ^ "Bouka". Africiné.
  7. ^ Pfaff 1988, pp. 35-36
  8. ^ Pfaff 1988, p. 35

References