The Big Everything

Documentary filmmaker Aminatou Échard embarks on a journey in the footsteps of her mother, ethnologist Nicole Échard, who conducted research in Niger from 1964 to 1994. She explores the 16mm films shot in the field, as well as the correspondence between her mother and her principal collaborator, Garba Maïgoye. Together with him and art students in Niamey, Aminatou reinterprets these archives and attempts to connect the traces of the past with the challenges of the present, exploring the colonial legacy and the complexity of contemporary Niger in dialogue with its history.

The screening will be followed by a discussion