{"id":5801,"date":"2014-11-08T20:04:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T02:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T04:47:49","slug":"nov-13-mati-diop-a-thousand-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2014\/11\/08\/nov-13-mati-diop-a-thousand-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 13 &#8211; Mati Diop: A Thousand Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, November 13th<\/strong>\u00a0| <em>Mati Diop in person!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5590\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/08\/No.-1-A-Thousand-Suns-Photo-2-EXP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5590 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/08\/No.-1-A-Thousand-Suns-Photo-2-EXP-1.jpg\" alt=\"Still from A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop, 2013). Courtesy of the artist.\" width=\"450\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/08\/No.-1-A-Thousand-Suns-Photo-2-EXP-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/08\/No.-1-A-Thousand-Suns-Photo-2-EXP-1-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop, 2013). Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Known for dreamlike shorts that experiment with the boundaries between documentary and fiction, award-winning French filmmaker Mati Diop mined her own history for\u00a0<em>A Thousand Suns<\/em>. The film explores the public and private legacies of the seminal Senegalese film\u00a0<em>Touki Bouki<\/em>\u00a0(1972), directed by her uncle Djibril Diop Mamb\u00e9ty. She focuses on Magaye Niang, a farmer living outside of Dakar, who, as a young man, played the film\u2019s lead. As Niang reflects on the events of his past, Diop meditates on Senegal\u2019s history, the role of its cinema, and her own place in it. Accompanied by Diop\u2019s haunting 2009 short <em>Atlantiques<\/em>, which spins feverish tales of European opportunity and perilous sea crossings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>2009\u201313, Senegal\/France, multiple formats, ca 65 min + discussion.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> In French, Wolof, and Swahili with English subtitles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Mati Diop<\/strong> (b. 1982, Paris, France) is an actress and filmmaker. She received an advanced degree from Le Fresnoy (National Studio of Contemporary Arts). Her films have been featured at festivals around the world, including Venice, Rotterdam, and the Marseille International Festival of Documentary Film in France. She has recently been the subject of retrospectives at the Viennale, the London Film Festival, and the Museum of Moving Image in New York City. As an actress, she has played leads in Claire Denis\u2019 <i>35 Shots of Rum<\/i> (2008), Antonio Campos\u2019 <i>Simon Killer<\/i> (2012), and Benjamin Crotty\u2019s <i>Fort Buchanan<\/i> (2013).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/11\/Mati-Diop_Notes.pdf\">Mati Diop Program Notes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 13th\u00a0| Mati Diop in person! Known for dreamlike shorts that experiment with the boundaries between documentary and fiction, award-winning French filmmaker Mati Diop mined her own history for\u00a0A Thousand Suns. The film explores the public and private legacies of the seminal Senegalese film\u00a0Touki Bouki\u00a0(1972), directed by her uncle Djibril Diop Mamb\u00e9ty. She focuses [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2014\/11\/08\/nov-13-mati-diop-a-thousand-suns\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Nov 13 &#8211; Mati Diop: A Thousand Suns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":5590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[52,872,206,423],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-19","tag-africa","tag-essays","tag-europe","tag-monographic-shows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9921,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions\/9921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}