{"id":479,"date":"2008-02-06T01:41:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/479"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:58:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:58:34","slug":"touki-bouki-1973-djibril-diop-mambety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/479","title":{"rendered":"Touki Bouki (1973, Djibril Diop Mambety)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMDB says it&#8217;s &#8220;believed to be Africa&#8217;s first avant-garde film&#8221;.  Think it&#8217;s the earliest African film I&#8217;ve seen period other than the not-so-avant-garde Black Girl &#038; Borom Sarret.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a semi-comic story of horned-motorcycle-drivin&#8217; Mory and his college student girlfriend Anta riding around Dakar, Senegal looking to steal enough money to get them to the paradise that is Paris.  After successfully robbing a gay rich dude and unsuccessfully robbing a wrestling match, she boards the boat but he is overcome by nationalistic cow-related panic and runs back into town.  There&#8217;s a woman &#8220;Aunt Oumy&#8221;, local griot, yells at them, they imagine returning to town rich and famous, Oumy singing for them.  I did kinda like it even though I don&#8217;t have much to say about it.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenbaum says &#8220;one of the greatest of all African films and almost certainly the most experimental &#8230; The title translates as Hyena&#8217;s Voyage, and among the things that make this film so interesting stylistically are the fantasy sequences involving the couple&#8217;s projected images of themselves in Paris and elsewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From wikipedia, Mambety &#8220;sought to expose the diversity of real life&#8221;, and his &#8220;editing and narrative style are a confluence of the ancient griotic tradition of tribal storytelling and modern avant-garde techniques.  Mamb\u00e9ty was interested in transforming conflicting, mixed elements into a usable African culture, and in his words, reinvent[ing] cinema.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before he died, Mambety was asked what he would do next.  &#8220;I will finish the third part of the trilogy about ordinary people.  After that, I will make Malaika, the third part of the trilogy about the power of craziness.  The first two were Touki Bouki and Hy\u00e8nes.  Then I will consult God about the state of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sex on the beach:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/toukibouki1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Wild child in a tree:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/toukibouki2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Griot in a riot:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/toukibouki3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Fantasy riches:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/toukibouki5.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Also watched <em>Episodes from the Life of Jekyll and Hyde<\/em> by Paul Bush, a few-minute piece using the soundtrack to one (or a few) Jekyll &#038; Hyde movie and ultra-fast-cutting two actors together into some kind of stop-motion nightmare&#8230; where the Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb meets Alone, Life Wastes Andy Hardy.  Cool.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/jekyll1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/jekyll2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMDB says it&#8217;s &#8220;believed to be Africa&#8217;s first avant-garde film&#8221;. Think it&#8217;s the earliest African film I&#8217;ve seen period other than the not-so-avant-garde Black Girl &#038; Borom Sarret. 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