Terri Francis’ Echoing Josephine Baker FILM + CONVERSATION EVENT

Touki Bouki

Sat. 2/18 at 12:00 pm

Terri Francis’ Echoing Josephine Baker
FILM + CONVERSATION EVENT
Free for UM StudentsWith 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.

“One of the most essential films of African cinema.” —Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Dr. Patoimbasba Nikiema, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies / Global Black and Afropean Studies at the University of Miami.

Echoing Josephine Baker is presented in partnership with the Black Creatives Collective and the University of Miami School of Communication.

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