Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It (Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai)

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Part of A Weekend of African Music and African American Film Restorations
Directed by Christopher Kirkley
Saturday, April 2, 7 p.m. 

“Blissful, effervescent entertainment”—Jon Dieringer, Screen Slate

In this loose remake of Prince’s Purple Rain, by the way of The Harder They Come, director and self-proclaimed “guerilla ethnomusicologist” Christopher Kirkley engages West African music in his striking film debut that is the first ever Tuareg-language film.

Guitar player and African music sensation Mdou Moctar stars as the purple motorcycle-riding musician tearing up the desert between home recording studios and guitar parties.
2015, Niger, video, in Tamashek and Tuareg with English subtitles, 75 minutes.

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