La Colère dans le vent: Entrevue avec Amina Weira

Abstract

This is an interview with Amina Weira, born in Niger in the second decade after the wave of African independences. It addresses her life and work as a filmmaker. Along with Sani Magori and Aicha Macky, she came to cinema in the dry years of the 2000s yet managed to position herself at the forefront of film production in Niger. For Weira, the documentary form, a much-maligned genre due to its association with mass political manipulation in the 1960s and 1970s, is the tool of choice for artistic creation. The introduction focuses on the images she crafts in La Colère dans le vent expounding a beauty only rivalled by the excruciating pains of men suffering untold diseases, due to their exposure to uranium pollution. The interview explores the making of Anger in the Wind (2016) and reveals an artist with a keen sense of justice, a woman given to moments of nostalgia yet revolted by the unending traumas suffered by the inhabitants of her native town: Arlit.