Yue is assistant professor of culture and media at The New School; coeditor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture; and a regular contributor to Film Comment and other publications

”Mille soleils (A Thousand Suns) keeps the promise of its title, and shines with so many lights.”-Jean-Pierre Rehm

(Mille soleils). Mati Diop's first feature looks back at her uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty's first feature film, the radically hybrid Touki Bouki, which tells the story of Magaye Niang and his girlfriend, who dream of leaving Senegal. Now, decades later, in Diop's equally hybrid film fusing documentary and fantasy, Magaye reminisces about his life and decision not to emigrate. "Nothing is true and nothing is false in my film. The friction and two-way shuttling between reality and myth is the main subject."