Essay

ULRIKE OTTINGER IN SIX CONTRADICTIONS

By Sam Bodrojan

On the vivacious films of New German Cinema’s most prominent female director, the subject of a recent retrospective at Metrograph theater, which is now carrying on digitally.

Essay

Oumou Sy: The Grande Dame of Senegalese Fashion

By Alexandra Marshall

A look at the career of the fashion and costume designer whose contributions to Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Hyenas served to heighten the film’s exquisite beauty.

Interview

Moussa Sene Absa

By Austin Dale

 The Dakar-based filmmaker and visual artist, who was a close friend of Djibril Diop Mambéty’s, talks about coming on as the assistant director during the troubled production of Hyenas.