Pap Souleye Fall: Film Screening

Artist FILM Screening: Touki Bouki

SEEINGDOUBLE: Pap Souleye Fall

Thursday, Feb, 15, 2024 at 6 pm

UArts, Terra Hall, Connelly Auditorium 8th Fl

Please join iLAB Artist-in-Resident Pap Souleye Fall for a special film screening as part of his exhibition SEEINGDOUBLE. 

The artist will screen the film Touki Bouki, Wolof for the Journey of the Hyena, a 1973 Senegalese drama film, directed by Djibril Diop.

With surreal and naturalistic elements, Djibril Diop Mambéty portrays post-independence Senegal in a picaresque fantasy-drama. Disaffected young lovers Anta and Mory yearn to escape to France but face practical and mystical obstacles. "Touki Bouki" features vivid imagery, bleak humor, unconventional editing, and jagged soundscapes, showcasing Mambéty's dedication to African storytelling.

Refreshments will be provided. Please use this link to RSVP and let us know your coming!

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Pap Souleye Fall makes videos, sculptures, sounds, paintings and situations that consider feeling and body knowledge as technologies of escapism. He deploys methods found in cosplaying like world-building, speculative fiction and gameplay, as components that come together to create immersive settings. 

Fall’s work questions how systems of power condition reality and how black diasporas navigate, reimagine, and refigure them in order to adapt. His practice necessitates improvisation, iteration, and malleable structures. He works with videos on monitors, cardboard, clothing and wood that are frequently salvaged or recycled. These materials allow him to create strategies and backdrops for joy and immersive experiences. Fall echoes the virtual and the physical as a way to source the black imaginary.