A conversation with Mati Diop

Join us in welcoming our special guest Mati Diop to Pratt Institute, for a conversation with students, facilitated by Film/Video Associate Professor Matías Piñeiro.

Mati Diop is a French-Senegalese filmmaker born in Paris in 1982.

Since her start as a visual artist in the early 2000s and her leading role in Claire Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum (2008), she has built an eclectic body of work which includes her award-winning short films Atlantiques (2009), Big in Vietnam (2010), Snow Canon (2011), A Thousand Suns (2013), In my room (2020).

With her first feature film Atlantics (2019), winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival followed by Dahomey (2024) awarded by The Golden Bear of Berlinale, (both short listed at the Oscars), she has established herself as one of the leading figures of international auteur cinema and a new wave in African and diasporic cinema. Her political and lyrical cinema challenge the boundaries between genres and formats like a reflection of her mixed identity. With the creation of Fanta Sy, a film house based in Dakar, she pursues her artistic commitment on the African continent.

DATE: April 21^st

TIME: 7 PM

LOCATION: Higgins Hall Auditorium, Pratt Institute