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The Life and Times of Sara Baartman

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In 1810, 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat from Cape Town to London, unaware that she would never see her home again, or that she would become the icon of racial inferiority and black female sexuality for the next 100 years. Four years later, she became the object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about BFS. She died the next year, but even after her death, Sara remained an object of imperialist scientific investigation. In the name of Science, her sexual organs and brain were preserved and displayed in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris until as recently as 1985. Using historical drawings, cartoons, legal documents, and interviews with noted cultural historians and anthropologists, this documentary deconstructs the social, political, scientific, and philosophical assumptions that transformed one young woman into a representation of savage sexuality and racial inferiority.

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Afrikaans
  • anthropology
  • racism
  • female sexuality
  • 19th century
  • ethnography
  • social & cultural documentary
  • scientific research
  • black woman
  • documentary short
  • historical documentary

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Director

Zola Maseko

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South Africa, France, Belgium

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  • South AfricaZA

    • Theatrical16 Sept 1998

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The Life and Times of Sara Baartman was released on 16 September 1998.

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