In 1810, 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat from Cape Town to London, unaware that she would never see her home again, or that she would become the icon of racial inferiority and black female sexuality for the next 100 years. Four years later, she became the object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about BFS. She died the next year, but even after her death, Sara remained an object of imperialist scientific investigation. In the name of Science, her sexual organs and brain were preserved and displayed in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris until as recently as 1985. Using historical drawings, cartoons, legal documents, and interviews with noted cultural historians and anthropologists, this documentary deconstructs the social, political, scientific, and philosophical assumptions that transformed one young woman into a representation of savage sexuality and racial inferiority.
Release Date : Sep 16, 1998
Genres : Documentary
Production Company : France 3, Mail & Guardian Television, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Dominant 7, PROCIREP, CNC, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Production Countries : South Africa, France, Belgium
Original Language : Afrikaans, English
Casts : Zola Maseko, Adrian Brown, Hlengiwe Farasani
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Status : Released
Budget : 0
Revenue : 0
