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Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’ focuses more on art than on people
Her first feature since 2019’s rather startling magical-neo-colonial melodrama, Atlantics, Diop’s doc leaves much unsaid for ...
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The Aftertaste of the Ocean
In 2018, Senegalese philosopher and economist Felwine Sarr, along with French art historian Bénédicte Savoy, were ...
Mati Diop’s Dahomey: A poetic inquiry into cultural restitution and identity
Diop’s Dahomey traces the spaces and labour that facilitate these artifacts’ return home. There is a beautiful formal ...