Timité Bassori (born 30 December 1933) is an Ivorian filmmaker, actor, and writer. His lone feature-length film, The 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 (age 88)[1][2] Aboisso, Ivory Coast, French West Africa
Nationality	Ivorian
Alma mater	College Technique d'Abidjan Cours Simon Institut des hautes études cinématographiques
Occupation	Filmmaker, actor, writer
Notable work	The Woman with the Knife

Biography

Timité Bassori is one of the pioneers of Ivorian cinema. Of Mandé-Dioula origin, he was born on December 30, 1933 in Aboisso in the extreme south-east of Côte d'Ivoire; After attending elementary school there. in 1949, he entered the Technical College of Abidjan, commercial section. he completed his studies in 1952 and worked in various commercial establishments. Wanting to do theater, he left for PARIS; first at SIMON courses from 1956 to 1957 then at the Center d'Art Dramatique on rue Blanche from 1957 to 1958. President of the Compagnie d'Art Dramatique des GRIOTS, which he founded in 1957 with student friends.[5]

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)
• The 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

• The Woman with the Knife (1969)
• Black and White in Color (1976)
• Weeds (1978)[6]

As assistant director

• Man from Cocody (1965)[7]

Notes

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.