2013 / digital / color / 45min. (France)
　　　
A THOUSAND SUNS is Diop’s beautiful, haunting portrait of Magaye Niang, the lead actor of  the 1973 film TOUKI-BOUKI. One of the most important films of African cinema, TOUKI-BOUKI was directed by the filmmaker’s uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty. Set in Dakar and Alaska, A THOUSAND SUNS portrays Niang as a “sad-eyed cattle herder who embodied the seminal role in TOUKI-BOUKI forty years ago…[and]…is now filled with longing for the vanished past and a future that was never meant to be.” (Andréa Picard)
　　

Mati DIOP

Born in 1982, lives and works in Paris as a director and an actress. She studied in the advanced degree program at Le Fresnoy (National Studio of Contemporary Arts) and le Pavillon (research laboratory of Palais de Tokyo).Her films include the short works LAST NIGHT (04), ATLANTIQUES (09), SNOW CANON (11), BIG IN VIETNAM (12) . Diop’s 2006 video LE ARTIFICIEL-EXPEDITION was featured in group exhibitions at le Pavillon, Louis Vuitton Centre and the Cultural Center of Delhi. Between 2002 and 2010, she regularly worked with different theatre directors producing collaborative video and sound works.Mati Diop has received great critical acclaim for her acting, playing the female lead in Claire Denis’ 35 SHOTS OF RUM (08). She has also acted in Antonio Campos’ 2012 film SIMON KILLER.
　

Schedule

TOKYO Image forum：5/1 21:15 Program P
TOKYO Park tower：：5/3 11:30 Program P
KYOTO：5/20 14:40 Program P
FUKUOKA：6/6 17:20 Program P
NAGOYA：6/25 19:00 Program P