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Two boundary-pushing filmmakers bring an experimental edge to these dazzling explorations of colonialism, tradition, and modernity. A featured work in this year’s Whitney Biennial, Algonquin-French artist Caroline Monnet’s short MOBILIZE is an exhilarating, rhythmically edited collage crafted from found footage of Canada’s indigenous First Nations people. Its whirlwind avant-garde technique makes it a bracing companion to Djibril Diop Mambéty’s landmark TOUKI BOUKI, which bristles with a similarly kinetic energy in its freewheeling portrait of a pair of restless young lovers in 1970s Senegal.

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  • Touki bouki

    Episode 1

    Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty • 1973 • Senegal

    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 glamo...