Film at Lincoln Center presents “Djibril Diop Mambéty Ciné-concerts by the Oriki Collective and Woz Kaly,” a series of live performances accompanying Mambéty’s restored films Le franc (1994) and The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999), from March 18 through March 20.
Each ciné-concert will be followed by a Q&A with the Oriki Collective and Woz Kaly. Please note that there will be a 30-minute reception between the performances.
The great Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty, who is best known for his feature-length films, 1973’s epochal Touki Bouki and 1992’s satirical tragicomedy Hyenas, made two medium-length masterpieces in the ’90s that were intended to be part of a trilogy entitled “Tales of Ordinary People,” but the filmmaker died in 1998 at the age of 53 before he could complete it. Le franc (1994) and The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999) punctuate, albeit too soon, Mambéty’s electric oeuvre. His final two films present rich portrayals of two dreamers as they try their luck against the cruel and absurd realities of the Dakar cityscape.
For the first time in the United States, the Oriki Collective (Yann Salètes, Mourad Baïtiche, and Michel Teyssier), together with the Senegalese vocalist Woz Kaly (founder of Missal, sang with Youssou N’Dour and toured with Touré Kunda, among others), will perform their original, live scores at Film at Lincoln Center accompanying Le franc and The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun.
