Khady Sylla

An Open Window

An Open Window

Country:Senegal

Director:Khady Sylla

Program:African Panorama

Year: 
2005

Duration: 
52

Summary:

Khady Sylla originally attempted to film a documentary about homeless psychiatric patients who roam the streets of Dakar, but the images were overexposed and unusable. But Sylla returned to the subject when she encountered Aminta Ngom who spends her days confined to the courtyard of her family’s house.