Afterimage: Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation: Mati Diop
A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop; France/Senegal, 2013)
With Mati Diop and Genevieve Yue in conversation
- When
- Fri Feb 20, 2015
- Where
- PFA Theater
- Time
- 7:30pm
- Cost
- $5.50 - $9.50
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign, Film Screenings
Description
”Mille soleils (A Thousand Suns) keeps the promise of its title, and shines with so many lights.”—Jean-Pierre RehmMati Diop's first feature looks back at her uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty's first feature film, the radically hybrid Touki Bouki, which tells the story of Magaye Niang and his girlfriend, who dream of leaving Senegal. Now, decades later, in Diop's equally hybrid film fusing documentary and fantasy, Magaye reminisces about his life and decision not to emigrate. "Nothing is true and nothing is false in my film. The friction and two-way shuttling between reality and myth is the main subject."
• Photographed by Diop, Héléne Louvart (45 mins, In French and Wolof with English subtitles, Color, DCP, From Anna Sanders Films)
More Info
- Link
- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN21922
- Call
- (510) 642-1412
- Call
- 510.642.5249 (Box Office)
- Contact Form (account required)
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