Salem Mekuria

Salem Mekuria was born in Addis Ababa in 1947. A pupil at Axum and then at Empress Menen's girls' school, she began studying architecture at Haile Selassie University and left to study in the United States. Her younger brother Selomon, involved in the student movement, disappeared during the purges: she came back to look for him, met with silence from the authorities and left the country. She worked for American public television, founded her own production company in 1987 and taught film history for twenty-four years at Wellesley College. Her video installations have been shown at the Venice Biennale.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaDelugeYe Wonz MaibelSalem Mekuria · 1997Cinema