Transmission in G Major between grandmothers and granddaughters

Jeanne and Ama; Sarah and Clara; Hélène Cixous and Saranya. © RFI / Yasmine Chouaki

By: Yasmine Chouaki

In G Major broadcasts its program of December 22, 2019, in tribute to the filmmaker and director Sarah Maldoror, who died on April 13, 2020, from the aftermath of the Covid-19.

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2019 is coming to an end and it's like a cycle for En G Major. It's been 10 years this year, that - by interposed transistor -, we are talking about our trees, our disturbed genealogies, our mobile identities.

If I summarized us, I would say that whatever the black or the blue of our eyes, we all have the same knots ... So to sand this cycle, I made a knot myself, but on a gift package: this consists in opening a small door on the question of transmission, between generations. In G Major crept like a little mouse, behind the door of a conversation between three exceptional grandmothers and their granddaughters. Only women: a coincidence me too , no doubt. Three intergenerational conversations, where one questions the other, where one no longer remembers, where one translates the language of the other ...

With   :
- Sarah Maldoror , director engaged in African Independence, born in Guadeloupe and her little daughter Clara
(Music: Facundo Cabral No Soy De Aquì, Ni Soy De Allà)
- Hélène Cixous (woman of letters born in Algeria to a mother Jewish German) and her adopted granddaughter, Saranya , born in India
(Music: Mahler The song of the earth )
- Jeanne Pham Tran (director of Éditions des Équateurs) born in the Paris region and her centenary grandmother Ama , born near Canton, in 1918 or 1919, and which is found in the 1930s in the service of Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam.
(Music: Crazy Rich Asians Soundtrack - Wo Yao Ni De Ai - Grace Chang).

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