Lecture and Film
African Boats and Scenes of Mourning in the Postcolonial Black Atlantic
Lecture by Ayo Coly (Dartmouth) with a screening of “The Pirogue” (2013).
more information › Encruzilhadas das águas / Water Crossings, routes for the Black Brazilian Cinemas’ experiences
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Janaína Oliveira (Rio de Janeiro) “We are always in the middle of the journey,” says essayist and poet Dionne Brand in A Map […]
more information › Flânoirie: inscribing mobility through walking in Black German film
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Karina Griffith (Berlin) A young university student searches for a room to let. An American GI searches for love between visiting record stores and […]
more information › LA PERMISSION (FR 1967. D: Melvin van Peebles)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Greg de Cuir Jr Lecture: A Black American in Paris Melvin van Peebles left the United States to live and work in Europe […]
more information › West Indies, the Black Atlantic and Knowledge: Med Hondo’s Ambulatory Cinema
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Aboubakar Sanogo (Ottawa) West Indies is not only Med Hondo’s most formally accomplished work, but it is also his most powerful manifesto and […]
more information › The Intimacies of Four Continents in Caribbean Cinema
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Usha Iyer (Stanford) his program of two films from the Caribbean – a fiction feature and a documentary will extend the frame of […]
more information › Diasporic Aesthetics, Intermedial Dialogues. The films of Nicolás Guillé Landrián
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Jessica Gordon-Burroughs (Edinburgh) Lecture: Diasporic Aesthetics, Intermedial Dialogues. The films of Nicolás Guillé Landrián Afro-Cuban filmmaker and artist Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s final cinematic […]
more information › The Black Altantic and the Politics of Self-Representation in the Cinema: A Critical Analysis of Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2019)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Femi Shaka (Port Harcourt) Paul Gilroy’s seminal work, The Black Atlantic (1993), is cardinal to an understanding of the “ideas of the nation, […]
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