Timité Bassori

Timité Bassori (born 30 December 1933) is an Ivorian filmmaker, actor, and writer. His lone feature-length film, Woman with the Knife (1969), is considered a classic of African cinema,[3] and is slated to be restored as part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative to preserve 50 African films through the collaboration of the groups FEPACI, UNESCO, Cineteca di Bologna, and Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation. The film is earmarked to be shown along with 4 other restored films at the 2019 film festival FESPACO.[4]

Timité Bassori
Born (1933-12-30) 30 December 1933[1][2]
Aboisso, Ivory Coast, French West Africa
NationalityIvorian
Alma materCollege Technique d'Abidjan
Cours Simon
Institut des hautes études cinématographiques
OccupationFilmmaker, actor, writer
Notable work
Woman with the Knife

Filmography

As director
  • The Foresters (documentary; 1963)
  • Abidjan-Niger (documentary; 1963)
  • Amédée Pierre (documentary; 1963)
  • On the Dune of Solitude (1964)
  • The Sixth Furrow (1966)
  • Bush Fires (1967)
  • Woman with the Knife (1969)
  • Abidjan, the Lagoon Pearl (1971)
  • Bondoukou, Year 11 (1971)
  • Odienné, Year 12 (1972)
  • Kossou 1 (1972)
  • Kossou 2 (1974)
  • The Akati Fellows (1974)[1]

As producer

As assistant director

Notes
  1. Shiri 1992, p. 29
  2. British Film Institute
  3. Agence Ivorienne de Presse 2014
  4. Page 2017
  5. Pfaff 1988, pp. 35-36
  6. Pfaff 1988, p. 35

References
  • "La semaine du film ivoirien a démarré à Rabat". Abidjan.net (in French). Weblogy Group Ltd. Agence Ivorienne de Presse. 4 November 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2018. ... 'La femme au couteau', l'un des classiques du cinéma africain...
  • "Timité Bassori". BFI. British Film Institute. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  • Page, Thomas (10 November 2017). "Martin Scorsese leads effort to save lost African cinema". CNN. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  • Pfaff, Françoise (1988). Twenty-five Black African Filmmakers: A Critical Study, with Filmography and Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-24695-5.
  • Shiri, Keith, ed. (1992). Directory of African Film-Makers and Films. Trowbridge, England: Flicks Books. ISBN 0-948911-60-3.
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