#  Harvard Film Archive: "Touki Bouki" | Djibril Diop Mambéty 

 



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 **February 9, 2015** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EST 

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 **Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA**  



 

 



 

*Free Admission with Harvard ID*   
 Introduction by Mati Diop  
Monday February 9 at 7pm<a></a>

### **Touki bouki**

Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. With Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall  
 Senegal 1973, 35mm, color, 89 min

The debut feature of Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty, *Touki bouki* stands today as one of the classics of African cinema and of 1970s world cinema. Built out of a rich montage of sights and sounds, *Touki bouki* is exuberantly syncretic, mixing the contemporary and the traditional, the naturalistic and the modernist in an expression of post-colonial Senegal’s ambitions for the future. This syncretism is embodied onscreen by the relationship between its two protagonists: a charismatic cowboy-turned-biker and a young student who meet in Dakar and dream of going to Europe.



 

 



 

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