{"id":14288,"date":"2021-06-08T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2021-06-07T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T01:44:45","slug":"a-thousand-suns-metaphor-a-so-called-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14288","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Suns \/ Metaphor \/ A So-Called Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A Thousand Suns<\/em> (2013, Mati Diop)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starts with very few indications that it&#8217;s not a purely observational doc following the lead actor of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/479\">Touki Bouki<\/a><\/em> making his way to an anniversary screening, but by the end we&#8217;re in a new realm with nude women in the Alaskan snow.  Nice use of Tex Ritter&#8217;s &#8220;High Noon&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diop in Cinema Scope:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sole element of reality that I kept in my film is that Magaye Niang stayed in Dakar and Myriam Niang left for Alaska.  From there I took fictional liberties, but the phone conversation that is heard in the film remains quite faithful to the real conversation that I recorded between the two actors.  Nothing is true and nothing is false in my film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Metaphor or Sadness Inside Out<\/em> (2014, Catarina Vasconcelos)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The metaphor is an elephant.  Bookending square-frame film segments with HD in the middle, circling around memories of a mother who died when her kids were teens.  More focus on family, photos and letters &#8211; a proto-<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13498\">Metamorphosis of Birds<\/a><\/em> that stands well on its own, and an example of how to use home movies and photographs in poetic ways.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/metaphor1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/metaphor2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>A So-Called Archive<\/em> (2020, Igwe Onyeka)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Upbeat promo soundtrack introduces a museum while the camera shows its pigeon-infested remains, tracing cobwebs, tattered filmstrips and lines of decay.  Filmed inside two shuttered colonial archives in UK and Nigeria, this was already a fascinating little movie and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onyekaigwe.com\/a-so-called-archive\">the online description<\/a> only improves it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/soarchive1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/soarchive2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Thousand Suns (2013, Mati Diop) Starts with very few indications that it&#8217;s not a purely observational doc following the lead actor of Touki Bouki making his way to an anniversary screening, but by the end we&#8217;re in a new realm with nude women in the Alaskan snow. Nice use of Tex Ritter&#8217;s &#8220;High Noon&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[42,367,93,2056,21,2245],"class_list":["post-14288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-africa","tag-colonialism","tag-documentary","tag-mati-diop","tag-shorts","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14302,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions\/14302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}