Écran d'argile - Rencontre avec Kandjoura Coulibaly, costumier de cinéma

In Mali, everything is ready to go for the shooting of "Le Pouvoir du pagne" by Adama Drabo, and yet everything is constantly put off. Kandjoura Coulibaly, a film costume designer, tries to combine the gentle green of the fields, the amber of the savannah, the earthen colour of skin, the incandescence of fire and the hazy blue of the sky in his costumes. The four elements meet each other in the loincloth and the pearls ; they evoke the natural forces which inhabit man and the cosmos. Alternating panoramic shots and slow tracking shots which convey the atmosphere of the Mali villages, a different dimension to time and the interviews with the architects of a film which is suffering an enforced wait, the film-makers examine a personal type of filmmaking which often goes unappreciated. The camera reveals the link between natural elements, everyday objects, recreated costumes and the expression of a wisdom which, apart from the oral tradition, wishes to be communicated through the vector of the image.