The young shepherd Mory has taken the cattle to the slaughterhouse, rides through Dakar on his motorcycle adorned with horns, meets the student Anna and wants to set off with her to Paris, to the “little angel of paradise”. To be able to afford the crossing, they try their hand at petty crime. A crazy, rousing, bursting-at-the-seams plot about the African fascination with the promises of the Western world. This is also reflected in the whirling style of the self-taught Mambéty: Touki Bouki, Wolof for The Journey of the Hyena, combines film noir and nouvelle vague, comedy and social criticism and is an antithesis to the large-scale sell-out in the blaxploitation cinema that was thriving at the same time. In the bright colors of the 70s, Touki Bouki impetuously defies all narrative conventions. Anything goes!

Loan of the film print with kind support of Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V..

„I was visiting Jerome Hill. Jerome loved France, especially Provence. He spent all his summers in Cassis. My window overlooked the sea. I sat in my little room, reading or writing, and looked at the sea. I decided to place my Bolex exactly at the angle of light as what Signac saw from his studio which was just behind where I was staying, and film the view from morning till after sunset, frame by frame. One day of the Cassis port filmed in one shot.“ Jonas Mekas

Loan of the film print with kind support of LightCone.