Blaffer Art Museum presents Touki Bouki

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The Blaffer Art Museum will hold a special screening of Djibril Diop Mambéty‘s film Touki Bouki (1973), in conjunction with the international group exhibition Time / Image.

With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama, two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical. Characterized by dazzling imagery and music, the alternately manic and meditative Touki Bouki is widely considered one of the most important African films ever made.

The Blaffer Art Museum will hold a special screening of Djibril Diop Mambéty‘s film Touki Bouki (1973), in conjunction with the international group exhibition Time / Image.

With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama, two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical. Characterized by dazzling imagery and music, the alternately manic and meditative Touki Bouki is widely considered one of the most important African films ever made.

The Blaffer Art Museum will hold a special screening of Djibril Diop Mambéty‘s film Touki Bouki (1973), in conjunction with the international group exhibition Time / Image.

With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama, two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical. Characterized by dazzling imagery and music, the alternately manic and meditative Touki Bouki is widely considered one of the most important African films ever made.

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Blaffer Art Museum
4173 Elgin St.
Houston, TX 77004
https://blafferartmuseum.org/event/touki-bouki-by-djibril-diop-mambety/

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