"When a story ends--or 'falls into the ocean,' as we say--it creates dreams," stated Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty, one of African cinema's most legendary figures. "I do the audience justice . . . they are free to take their own path, to enter or to leave. In one word, 'liberty' is what characterizes what I am doing." Born in Colobane, a small town outside Dakar, Mambéty studied acting before teaching himself filmmaking. After turning heads in 1969 with the satirical short Contras' City, Mambéty made his feature debut with Touki Bouki (1973), a psychedelic, supercharged homage to urban Senegal's tricksters and dreamers. "Unlike anything in the history of African cinema" (N. Frank Ukadike), the film caught audiences entirely off guard, accustomed as they were to the polite enquiries of social realist-inspired "Third World Cinema..." -- Jason Sanders, Film Notes Writer
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"When a story ends--or 'falls into the ocean,' as we say--it creates dreams," stated Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty, one of African cinema's most legendary figures. "I do the audience justice . . . they are free to take their own path, to enter or to leave. In one word, 'liberty' is what characterizes what I am doing." Born in Colobane, a small town outside Dakar, Mambéty studied acting before teaching himself filmmaking. After turning heads in 1969 with the satirical short Contras' City, Mambéty made his feature debut with Touki Bouki (1973), a psychedelic, supercharged homage to urban Senegal's tricksters and dreamers. "Unlike anything in the history of African cinema" (N. Frank Ukadike), the film caught audiences entirely off guard, accustomed as they were to the polite enquiries of social realist-inspired "Third World Cinema..." -- Jason Sanders, Film Notes Writer
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