Ousmane Sow - Sculpteur d'Afriques

The film is a love story between a man and his sculptures, between a man and a woman, and between a man and a branch of humanity. The director has focused on the artist's work, filming and throwing into relief Ousmane Sow's four series of sculptures : the Masaï, the Nubians, the Zulus and the Fulani. Béatrice Soulé writes to Ousmane Sow. Ousmane Sow replies to her letter without really answering it. We are confronted with and inner voice, a chorus of two voices, a sort of intimate toing and froing. This intimacy, this shared confidence, creates a special magic which allows us to follow the artist in his most secret creative endeavour : in a dizzying instant of great tension and yet of infinite gentleness, the camera captures for us the precise moment when a face emerges. And we become intensely aware of the presence of the man whose mystery Béatrice Soulé has wished to respect. We know nothing and yet we know everything. We have seen noting but we have seen all.