Linguère Ramatou is also marginalized, because she is exactly the same person who crossed the Atlantic to go to Europe in Touki Bouki. That doesn’t change anything. Returning home: Djibril Diop Mambety's Hyènes. using film in an innovative way, by exploiting the medium to its utmost. The point is not that she is Asian. Interview: Teemour Mambéty Diop on “Hyenas” And His Father’s Legacy Paulette Gomis talks to Teemour Mambéty Diop, son of legendary "Hyenas" director Djibril, about living with a filmmaker father and embracing his legacy. Wasis Diop … from theatre to film to express your dreams? for the reality. too. “When a story ends—or ‘falls into the ocean,’ as we say—it creates dreams,” said the great Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty in an interview after the completion of his second film, Hyenas, a wildly freeform adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit. [. Marginalized people interested Mambety because he believed that "they He is able to follow a lion, a I believe that each filmmaker goes his own way, but each person is constantly evolving, changing as he looks to the light he receives that helps him advance. Hollywood could not have made this film, no matter how much money they spent. You must have had to work substantially and the cinema will have it's first centenary in '95. It is intrinsic to the film; it magnifies the action. "African Conversations," interview with June Givanni, in Sight andSound (London) September 1995. As I are more truthful to their material. It means evoking, creating, and writing. Earlier, I focused on the notion of freedom, which includes the freedom not to know. In one word, “liberty” is what characterizes what I am doing. Mory and Anta’s dreams made them feel like foreigners in their own country. For me, part of that beauty is the fact that it is not very difficult to make a film in Africa. with them in order to get that quality of performance. I have never pursued a single style, and the others haven’t done that, either. They are nearer life than a professional. They are like some kind of elephant Flâneurs, Fragmentation and the Flow of Life in Djibil Diop Mambéty’s Cinema of Wanderers". INTERVIEWER: So you think that the people of Africa have accepted this and that they the seventh art. is very difficult to do. This discussion is an excerpt of what appears in Transition 78, published in 1999, the year after Mambéty’s death at just 53. He grew up in Colobane, a neighborhood in Dakar, where his father was an imam. You have elephants going away with the wind. INTERVIEWER: Do you think that African INTERVIEWER: Hyenas has been very popular Shortly thereafter, he made his first film short called Badou Boy (1970), which dealt with the life of a young renegade. For each individual to have clean hands, everybody has to be dirty, to share in the same communal guilt. Did you train them? Africa can rediscover that moment of the invention of cinema. To me, structure often means premeditation. about his character in order to play it, but a non-professional plays with his own He is a liar, the hyena. I began to make Hyenas when I realized I absolutely had to find one of the characters in Touki Bouki, which I had made 20 years before. Atlantics (Mati Diop, 2019). When I was young, when I went to the movies, I was always angry when I saw an actor who had died in one film appearing in another film alive. All Rights Reserved. The cinema of Djibril Diop Mambéty is filled with dreamers. Djibril ne comprenait pas que de si majestueuses créatures soient terrassées et égorgées. .] In these matters, humans are mere toys. this film, apart from the fact that it was a to packed audiences at the recent Southern African Film Festival, talks with Rachel She is a rich foreigner. When children ask me, “How does one make a film?” I always say that you have to have freedom to make a film, and to have freedom, you need confidence. available from When I set out to find her again, I had the conviction that I was looking for a character from somewhere in my childhood. DJIBRIL: Its earned millions many millions. DJIBRIL: You know in the beginning I kill them. Interview with Djibril Museum of Modern Art The master Abel Ferrara–with whom we recently spoke in a wide-ranging interview–is given his largest-ever retrospective. Sissako calls Djibril Diop Mambéty the greatest African filmmaker. From that time I haven't made many films. The whole society of Colobane is made up of ordinary people. They tell the African people Marginalized people bring a community into contact with a wider world. The hyena has no sense of shame, but it represents nudity, which is the shame of human beings. •, Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service. They live with Hyenas, and I am sure that in the darkness of the world, they You must have the freedom and confidence to understand and critique what you see. On the other hand, I have found that I am able to make films because each film sets me free to think about the subject I take on. In an interview from 1995, the Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety remembered his first encounters with the movies. person, his own soul, his present soul and tries to make do with it. Europe is not important for me. Great intro by Scorsese and a 12 min interview with Abderrahmane Sissako on his love for the film. Where the money to make a film comes from doesn’t matter. Do you think that The people of Colobane are dressed in rice bags. Clements, Clare (2011): "Meandering through Dakar. Together, they are too heavy for human beings. The first two films, The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun and Le… Style is a word that I do not like. Once we have worked together, it seems to me that the actor has already given everything, because I have already asked everything of him or her. They are all disguised because no one wants to carry the individual responsibility for murder. Film is film. When I You have to clean up your economy. But the instant of murder required collective responsibility, and this required a mask. Here are Mambety… In Hyenas, the people of Colobane would not have been able to enact a collective murder if they had each kept their individual clothing. That is not an explanation or an ideology. Is there any significance to this? So La tailleuse de pierre shows how an individual can dream of beauty. Close-Up Film Centre 97 Sclater Street London E1 6HR +44 (0)20 3784 7970 info@closeupfilmcentre.com Open Wednesday to Sunday: 12:00 - 18:00 And to make it global, we borrowed somebody from Japan, and carnival scenes from the annual Carnival of Humanity of the French Communist Party in Paris. One part of Criterion's brand new World Cinema Project box set is one of African cinema's greatest achievements. Djibril is Gabriel, like the angel. That is why I have fished out cases where man, taken individually, can defeat money. He talks about his plans for a third part of the ”Tales of Ordinary People” trilogy—which was never made. INTERVIEWER: How many of the actors in that film were professional actors? A3, 2003; Simon Njami, « 'L'image va où le vent', entretien avec Djibril Diop Mambety » (consulté le 2 juin 2013) Vincent Malausa, « Djibril Diop Mambety, la liberté sans condition », Cahiers du cinéma, n o 678, mai 2012 (en) Clare Clements, Meandering through Dakar. you money.". He talks about his plans for a third part of the “Tales of Ordinary People” trilogy-which was never made. I am all for the quality of things—the total quality. Kill and the money 189-203. all these people in the story came from bars, from townships, like the one in the Africa Film & TV Magazine. I have said to the young filmmakers, “If you want to make a film, please think thoroughly about the content of the film you would make.” But I cannot compare their films to mine; I cannot talk about African cinema. The hyena comes out only at night, he is afraid of daylight, like the hero of Touki bouki …” Mory, more than Ante, schemes and plots, constantly trying to find ways to find the funds to escape Dakar, a place they feel is too weighed … I tell them to close their eyes, to look at the stars, and look into their hearts, and then to open their eyes and see if the film they want to make is there, in front of their eyes. The mask is what makes it impossible for the townspeople to recognize good and bad. Anta and Mory do not dream of building castles in Africa; they dream of finding some sort of Atlantis overseas. Hyenas, please, sick lion during all seasons. Open your eyes, and the film is there. It’s the way I dream. my dignity is meat. The people of Colobane feel they need her money; you could say, in the language of the World Bank, that she is a marginal person “we want to have.” So Linguère Ramatou gives me a measure of my existence in relation to other things. DJIBRIL: Cinema can reach more people than theatre. As I said more than 20 years ago, for the educated African, Chinese, or Japanese, nothing authorizes mediocrity. For example, at the end of Hyenas, if you want to know where Dramaan Drameh’s body has gone, you risk breaking the magic. INTERVIEWER: So what is it about Hyenas that is reinventing the cinema? Their hair makes them buffaloes. Myself, I am actor. whose wings flow in the wind, and African Film makers can be birds for reinventing For that reason, their hair is done as that of the buffalo—the laughingstock of the savanna—and the rice bags they wear symbolize their objective. or which character they wanted to be. Interview By N. Frank Ukadike This discussion is an excerpt of what appears in Transition 78, published in 1999, the year after Mambéty’s death at just 53. It means clearly said. I was first introduced to Djibril Diop Mambéty's dazzling Touki Bouki (Journey of the Hyena) through the Criterion Collection's first box set from Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project.Watching Scorsese's introduction (once again included in this new standalone release), it's nearly impossible not to get caught up in his clear love and … So costume is not an ornament, it is the reflection of a situation. Tell me about that. A wealthy woman (Ami Diakhate) returns to her—and Mambéty’s—home village, and offers the inhabitants a vast sum in exchange for the murder … Though she’s considered a first-time filmmaker by Cannes standards, Mati Diop is hardly a newcomer, having spent more than a decade working as an actress in films by Claire Denis (35 Shots of Rum), Antonio Campos (Simon Killer), and Matías Piñeiro (Hermia and Helena), and directing a small but vital collection of shorts. That broke the magic of cinema for me. I came from the theatre to the cinema. That is the life of the World A rich man comes along, and a magazine that should cost 5 francs is sold for 500 francs. Born the son of a Muslim cleric in Colobane, near Dakar, Senegal, Djibril Diop Mambéty received no formal training in filmmaking. No more. I loved pictures when I was a very young boy—but pictures didn’t mean cinema to me then. is like. The difference between professionals and non- professionals is a professional learns Wind, like music, is the breath of movement and life. African condition - a sacrifice that has to be made? I do not want to use an actor again once we have worked together. going on, and between the elephants at the beginning and the elephants at the end, I do not want to remain forever pessimistic. What is it In the third part, La tailleuse de pierre, a woman excavates pieces of basalt. The hero of the film is going crazy because of a lottery ticket, but he manages to hold on because he has the power of dreaming. They follow the wind and follow the life. As I said to the children before, in order to make a film, you must only close your eyes and see the images. make films I want to make sure that there exists this sense of reinvention and this He had no dignity We are perhaps poor in money but so rich by situation and hope. 1. For me a film should be a bomb, a bomb of emotion like It takes To make Hyenas even more continental, we borrowed elephants from the Masai of Kenya, hyenas from Uganda, and people from Senegal. Southern African Film Festival--1993 Philosophical and private motives apparently led to Terrence Malick’s more recent 20-year hiatus. INTERVIEWER: But to me you are not putting theatre onto film. Do you think that the The first two films, The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun and Le Franc, were shown together as Metrograph’s premiere Live Screening. Relatively unknown compared to other foreign film giants is the work of Djibril Diop Mambety, 1945-1998, with only a few films to his credit, including Touki Bouki, Badou Boy, both from 1973.
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