Directing
Madubuko Diakité
Place of birth
Harlem, New York, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
4 titles
Madubuko Diakité is a Human Rights lawyer, researcher, writer, and documentary filmmaker born in Harlem in 1940. Diakité studied at the New York Institute of Photography but moved from the USA to Sweden in 1968 to study filmmaking and pursue a PhD in Cinema Studies. At this time he traveled frequently between Sweden, USA, and Nigeria, where he had partly grown up and would later found a film school. In 1992, he also earned a Licentiate in Law at Lund University, Sweden. Since then, Diakité has practiced law and researched Human Rights at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund and has been active in anti-discrimination organizations in Sweden. He has published several books, among them Film, …
Known for
NRDiakité’s unique historical document, made together with Gary Engman and Nordal Åkerman, records the precarious living conditions of foreign students, immigrants, and in particular the African diaspora in southern Sweden in the ‘70s.
The Invisible People
1972
NRDREAMS OF G takes us into the surrealist dreamscapes and awakening visions of G. An experimental short film shot in New York and made with support from The Film-Makers' Coop.
Dreams of G
1970
En dag på Mårtenstorget Diakité produced together with students in a course at Folkuniversitet in Lund which, as the name suggests, follows the daily activities on and around the square in Lund.
En Dag På Mårtenstorget i Lund
1981
NRFocusing on the Civil Rights Movement and a 1970 protest in New York, For Personal Reasons was inspired by the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. An innovative mix of fact and fiction—a kind of critical fabulation—it juxtaposes militant speech with avant-garde jazz. The film won an Honorable Mention at the Grenoble Film Festival in 1973.
For Personal Reasons
1973
Behind the camera
NRDiakité’s unique historical document, made together with Gary Engman and Nordal Åkerman, records the precarious living conditions of foreign students, immigrants, and in particular the African diaspora in southern Sweden in the ‘70s.
The Invisible People
1972
NRDREAMS OF G takes us into the surrealist dreamscapes and awakening visions of G. An experimental short film shot in New York and made with support from The Film-Makers' Coop.
Dreams of G
1970
En dag på Mårtenstorget Diakité produced together with students in a course at Folkuniversitet in Lund which, as the name suggests, follows the daily activities on and around the square in Lund.
En Dag På Mårtenstorget i Lund
1981
NRFocusing on the Civil Rights Movement and a 1970 protest in New York, For Personal Reasons was inspired by the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. An innovative mix of fact and fiction—a kind of critical fabulation—it juxtaposes militant speech with avant-garde jazz. The film won an Honorable Mention at the Grenoble Film Festival in 1973.
For Personal Reasons
1973