Following the recent acquisition of the Ousmane Sembène archives by the Lilly Library, the papers of Paulin S. Vieyra by the Black Film Center & Archive and his films by the Moving Image Archive, Dr. Vincent Bouchard has formed the Early African Cinemas Lab at IU. Bringing together interested undergraduate and graduate students, specialists of African Film, and campus-based centers and resources, the EACL facilitates research into this rich and valuable collection of primary sources to provide a more accurate view of Francophone cinemas and to better understand the preliminary stage of cinematic activities and institutions in Senegal in the 1960s.
For more information on our current activities, visit our Activities page