Departing from the title, the video establishes a divergent parallelism in between the wife of the Senegalese migrants’ and the Odysseus’ Penelope. The protagonist do not just take Penelope’s roll, but subvert it. Parallelism due the similarity in the long periods waiting for their husbands’ return home. Divergence because, here these women take the enunciation power, to tell us how they deal with their reality and they how negotiate with the social pressure surrounding them, that like in the Odysseus, would love relegating them into a second term.
Migration
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“I live on the campus of the Gaston Berger University at Saint Louis, Senegal. I have met there Africans from different parts of the continent. Of all these friends, one of them, a Senegalese, has stuck in my mind. He was the first to speak to me of my difference, the fact that I come from Central Africa. He let me become acquainted with his society, its taboos. Today I do not know where he is. I just know that one day he left on a pirogue headed for Europe. From his absence came the desire to make a film on our meeting, our differences, the places we crossed, the friends we knew.”
UntitledA conversation at the microMeeting de Ru'a [visions] at the CCCBA. 05.17.2013 "Knowing the West with my own eyes ... Despite globalization, we never see images of the white man working ... We see that he is in a hurry, but who cleans his streets? ... My grandfather told me that the white man He deceives us, tells us that we are poor, but we are not! What happens is that he only knows one level of wealth, the most basic, the most ephemeral and material ... For him, everything that is not visible is madness or superstition ... "
This documentary explores migration to Spain from the Senegalese point of view.