**Djibril Diop Mambéty_Contras City _1968, 21 min**Djibril Diop Mambéty's earliest film, a short entitled Contras City (1968), highlights the contrasts of cosmopolitanism and unrestrained ostentation in Dakar's baroque architecture against the modest, everyday lives of the Senegalese. Mambéty's recurrent theme of hybridity—the blending of elements from precolonial Africa and the colonial West in a neocolonial African context—is already evident in Contras City, which is often considered Africa's first comedy film.Watch Contras City on UbuWeb