A Language of Traces: The short films of Mati Diop
“My characters rarely find themselves where they want to be in the world: there is always somewhere to escape from,…
2009
‘Still Moving’: Ulrike Ottinger’s Shifting Archive of Identity
An experimental documentary that unpacks a personal archive without exposition, narration, or dialogue, Ulrike Ottinger’s Still Moving (2009) relies instead…
Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantique’ (‘Atlantics’) turns to the women left behind
In Mati Diop’s short film Atlantiques (2009), three young Senegalese men sit around a bonfire in Dakar at night, one…