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 at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ). She is Head Programmer at the Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro and on the programming committees […]
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 in 1959, and was invited to Paris for screenings on the strength of the short films he had made a few years earlier. After finding success as a journalist […]
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 shops and gigging with his band. Olingo and They Call It Love, respectively, are both black and white student films featuring wandering Black male protagonists in Germany. In her lecture, Karina […]
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 to the Door of No Return. The crossing of the Atlantic marks Black people’s historical and aesthetic experiences, bringing fragmentation and incompleteness, but also the crossroads that […]
Vortrag von Ayo Coly (Dartmouth) mit einer Filmvorführung von „The Pirogue“ (2013).
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, nationality, national belonging, and nationalism” as experienced by blacks in the diaspora. But as Zeleza (2005) noted, “Gilroy’s central concern was to deconstruct the idea of the black race, […]
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 work in exile, Inside Downtown, co-directed with Jorge Egusquiza, has barely been discussed in the growing critical literature on his oeuvre. This omission points to the persistent difficulties of […]
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 the Black Atlantic by considering connected migrations across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and histories of African enslavement and Asian indenture. The many connections and frictions between […]
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 cinematic treatise on the Black Atlantic and its status as an archive, a repository and producer of multiple (beyond the DuBoisian double), contradictory, superimposed yet complementary consciousnesses and […]