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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 […]
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The Viewing Booth
The Record and the Narrative. The Documentary Cinema of Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, born in Jerusalem in 1969, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. His […]
more information › The Inner Tour
The Record and the Narrative. The Documentary Cinema of Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, born in Jerusalem in 1969, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. His […]
more information › The Law in These Parts
The Record and the Narrative. The Documentary Cinema of Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, born in Jerusalem in 1969, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. His […]
more information › Key Works of Afro-Brazilian Short Film
Lecture & Film: Black Atlantic Cinema Lecture: Janaína Oliveira (Rio de Janeiro) Lecture: Key Works of Afro-Brazilian Short Film Janaína Oliveira has a Ph.D. in History and is a professor […]
more information › SAMBIZANGA (1972. D: Sarah Maldoror)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Jennifer Blaylock (Rowan University) Lecture: The Thin Green Line Between Canons and Revolutions. On Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga (1972) What happens to the revolutionary […]
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MANDABI The Postal Money Order (SN 1968. D: Ousmane Sembene)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Daniel Fairfax (Frankfurt) Lecture: Symbolic Capital: Mandabi (1968) by Ousmane Sembene An adaptation of his own novella Le Mandat, Ousmane Sembene’s Mandabi (1968) […]
more information › THE TERROR AND THE TIME (GY 1979. D: Victor Jara Collective)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Iyabo Kwayana (New Hampshire) Lecture: Terror and the Time: A Reflection on Poetic Resistance This talk will explore the poetry of Martin Carter […]
more information › CONFUSION NA WA (NG 2013. D: Kenneth Gyang)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Didi Cheeka, Vinzenz Hediger Lecture: Nollywood and the Black Atlantic. On Kenneth Gyang’s “Confusion Na Wa” (2013) Rather than wait for government support […]
more information › LITTLE SENEGAL (DZ/FR/DE 2001. D: Rachid Bouchareb)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Boukary Sawadogo (New York) Lecture: Blackness: Politics and Affect of Kinship in Little Senegal Little Senegal (2001) by the Algerian French director Rachid […]
more information › A DEUSA NEGRA (Black Goddess. BR/NG 1979. D: Ola Balogun)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Introduction: Didi Cheeka (Lagos) and Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt, ConTrust) Lecture: Crossing the Black Atlantic: Ola Balogun and A Deusa Negra (1978) Reversing the course […]
more information › Ruptures Beyond the Frame
Film screening of “Soleil Ô (Oh, Sun)” and “Dreaming Rivers” and lecture by Awa Konaté (Abu Dhabi / London)
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