Jean-Marie Téno
Director
Biography
Cameroon
Jean-Marie Téno, Africa’s preeminent documentary filmmaker, has been producing and directing films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty years. Films by Jean-Marie have been honored at festivals worldwide. He has been a guest of the Flaherty Seminar, an artist in residence and has lectured at many universities. Jean-Marie was born in 1954 in Bandjoun, Cameroon. He studied audiovisual communication at the University of Valenciennes and worked as a film critic for Bwana Magazine and as editor-in-chief at France 3. In 1983, he directed his first short documentary Schubbah. In 1992, he made his documentary Africa, I Will Pluck You Clean on the effects of colonialism and neocolonialism in Cameroon. In 1996, he made Clando, which won the Audience Award at the 6th African Film Festival in Milan, Italy. Jean-Marie Teno is also a producer of his own films with Les Films du Raphia. From 2007 - 2008, he was a Visiting Artist at Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and in 2009 - 2010 he was visiting Professor at Hampshire College, Massachusetts. He lives between France, Cameroon and the United States.
Filmography
Schubbah
(1983)
Hommage
(1985)
Yellow Fever Taximan
(1985)
La gifle et la caresse
(1987)
Bikutsi Water Blues
(1988)
The Last Trip
(1990)
Mister Foot
(1992)
Africa, I Will Fleece You / Afrique, je te plumerai
(1992)
Head in the Clouds
(1994)
Clando
(1996)
Chief!
(1999)
A Trip to the Country
(2000)
Alex’s Wedding
(2002)
The Colonial Misunderstanding / Le Malentendu colonial
(2004)
Sacred Places / Lieux Saints
(2009)
Leaf in the Wind
(2013)
Chosen / Le Futur Dans Le Retro
(2018)
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A Trip to the Country
With irony and humor, this film questions the validity of development discourse which deems all things European to be modern and all things African to be archaic.
$26.95
Alex’s Wedding
Unlike any wedding video you've ever seen, Teno's sharp eye captures every uncomfortable moment in a polygamous marriage ceremony.
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Films Curated by AFF
Chosen / Le Futur dans le rétro
Cameroon, Ghana and France / 2018 / 89mins / Documentary / French
Chief!
Cameroon / 1999 / 61mins / Documentary / French
A Trip to the Country
Cameroon / 2000 / 75mins / Documentary / Bamileke and French
The Colonial Misunderstanding
Cameroon / 2004 / 78mins / Documentary / English, French and German
Alex’s Wedding
Cameroon and France / 2003 / 45mins / Documentary / Bamileke and French
Yellow Fever Taximan (Fièvre jaune taximan)
Cameroon / 1985 / 30mins / Comedy / French
Sacred Places / Lieux Saints
Cameroon and France / 2009 / 70mins / Documentary / French
Mister Foot
Cameroon / 1992 / 31mins / Documentary / French
Head In The Clouds / La tête dans les nuages
Cameroon / 1995 / 37mins / Documentary / French
Clando
Cameroon / 1996 / 95mins / Drama / French
Africa, I Will Fleece You (Afrique, Je Te Plumerai)
Cameroon / 1992 / 88mins / Documentary / French
