Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only five feature films ...
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Senegalese film director and actor
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Djibril Diop Mambéty was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only five feature films and two short documentary films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic... Wikipedia
Born: January 23, 1945, Gueule Tapee, Dakar, Senegal
Died: July 23, 1998 (age 53 years), Paris, France
Niece: Mati Diop
Siblings: Wasis Diop
Parents: Binta diop the aunty Binta Yade
Notable work: Touki Bouki
Movies
Born the son of a Muslim cleric in Colobane, near Dakar, Senegal, Djibril Diop Mambéty received no formal training in filmmaking.
On July 23, 1998, Djibril Diop Mambety died in the Paris hospital where he was being treated for lung cancer. Only fifty-three years old at the time of his ...
Biography. Senegal. The son of a Muslim cleric and member of the Lebou tribe, Senegalese film pioneer Djibril Diop Mambéty was born near Senegal's capital city ...
Djibril DIOP MAMBÉTY (1945, Senegal − 1998, France) was a Senegalese filmmaker, actor, orator, composer and poet. Despite his small oeuvre, ...
A wealthy woman revisits her former village with nefarious intentions in this timeless parable about human greed and the betrayal of African independence, “a ...
Djibril Diop Mambéty, a towering figure in world cinema, is best known for his two features, TOUKI BOUKI and HYENAS. Yet these two extraordinary films tell only ...
This discussion is an excerpt of what appears in Transition 78, published in 1999, the year after Mambéty's death at just 53. He talks about his plans for a ...
To these western eyes, Mambéty's early work seems both highly contemporary to its own era of world film and also deeply connected to past cinematic traditions.
Djibril Diop Mambéty · Director · Screenwriter · Producer. “The word griot... is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker ...