RAW Material Company is organizing a program focused on the feminine transmission of intimacy. Created in collaboration with the director and cultural practitioner Fama Ndiaye, it unfolds over two events. On Friday, April 19th - 6 pm, a screening of short films will be followed by a discussion between Fama Ndiaye and psychologist Ismahan Soukeyna Diop. On Saturday, April 20th, a day of "pencco*" in closed circle** — exclusively reserved for women — will be organized around this theme, in the company of sociologist Selly Ba, sexologist Jeanne Diaw, and cultural practitioner Oumy Régina Sambou, moderated by Fama Ndiaye.
*Dial Diali of Ousmane William Mbaye, Production: Almadies Films Sénégal - 23 minutes - 1992
This documentary slightly lifts the veil under which Senegalese women hide their artifices linked with their seductive power and charm: little loincloths, pearl belts, henna and incense....
*Know how to make your bed by Aicha Macky - 26 minutes - 2013
Where I come from, in Niger, when a woman joins the marital home, she is exhorted to "know how to make the bed" without being taught in advance. As I follow the Nigerian woman on her journey to learn the art of seduction, Senegalese women reveal the secret of preparing the body for femininity. In seeking to understand how two African societies, both Muslim, can perceive the female body so differently, I reconcile myself with my body, helping it to discover its grace, inhibited since the cradle, but I also question the taboos and the unspoken in my country.
*The price of blood by Anne Elisabeth Ngo Minka - 26 minutes - 2010
"Because I didn't bleed during my first sexual encounter, my boyfriend accused me at the time of lying to him and telling him I was a virgin. My film questions a concept, or rather an abstraction: virginity! How is it perceived? To represent it, I use symbols and voices... And because this question is at the heart of several religions, I question Islam and Catholicism, but also tradition and the scientific point of view." --Anne Elisabeth Ngo Minka
The idea for this program was inspired by an observation: the contradiction that lies in the double injunction that young Senegalese women receive nowadays: on modesty and discretion on the one hand, to skill and expertise in gratifying male pleasure on the other. The purpose of these encounters is to create a space for exchange, reflection and questioning on the many ways of being a woman and what they entail. Observe the various forms of resistance at work and understand the mechanisms of reappropriation and transmission around sexuality, desire and feminine pleasure, in popular culture: via new forms of online coaching on social networks, through sales practices on markets or in series, video clips and advertisement.
**This program is accessible by registration only, and will give rise in the weeks to come to podcasted conversations accessible to all.
Please register by sending a Whatsapp message here +221/781072246