Saturday, February 15 • 6pm
Dahomey
Mati Diop, H264, 68 min
France / Benin, 2024 (French, English, Fon)
Golden Bear, 2024 Berlin Film Festival
Documenting the French government’s 2021 repatriation of 26 looted treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey in 1892 to Cotonou, Benin in a ghostly ‘fantasy documentary’ essay that interrogates colonial legacies, Dahomey folds the poetic into the politic to consider questions of cultural reclamation, reparations and the responsibilities of generations at work today in the conservation of these pieces.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies & Museum Studies program
Double Bill with Statues Die Too at 5:15pm + Talkback