'God’s Pieces of Wood', a cinematic reconfiguration

Sembène Ousmane’s work, Les Bouts de bois de Dieu, bears the characteristics of a cinematic media tool. This aesthetic or concept of the adaptation of literature to film takes us back to the distant past to situate the context of the rapprochement of these two genres. Indeed, in the past, cinema did not hesitate to turn to literature to make an identity for itself. This desire to unite with literature in order to enjoy its favors, led the cinema to begin a process of seduction and profit in order to assert itself later. Considered as an art in the same way as literature, cinema is the process of photographically recording and projecting animated views. It is above all the art of composing and making cinematographic films. It is called the seventh art. It was invented in 1895 by Louis Lumière. Its implementation was very decisive because the filmmakers in the first decade of the 20th century took on the mission of taking the cinema out of the fairground world. In its search for a new audience, cinema will create dependencies on other arts.