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 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 shape lives in the African diasporas. The Encruzilhadas das águas / Water Crossings program offers a path for thinking about the Atlantic routes that shape Black cinemas in Brazil, proposing the encounter of contemporary works with Zózimo Bulbul’s pioneering film, in a kind of cinematographic panorama through the waters.

Janaína Oliveira holds 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 for FINCAR (Festival Internacional de Cinema de Realizadoras) and International Women Filmmakers Festival in Recife.

Film Program:
Alma no Olho (Soul in the eye), Zózimo Bulbul (Brazil, 1973, 13 min)
NoirBlue, Displacents of a dance, Ana Pi, Brazil, 2018, 27 min.
Se o mar tivesse varandas (If the sea had balconies), Aline Motta, Brazil, 2017, 9 min.
Mal di Mare (Seasick), João Vieira Torres, France/Brazil, 2021, 15 min.
Mar de Dentro, Lia Letícia, Brazil, 2024, 8 min.
De um lado do Atlântico (On One Side of the Atlantic), Milena Manfredini, Brazil, 2017, 7 min.

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Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft der Goethe Universität und Kino im deutschen Filmmuseum in Kooperation mit dem Forschungszentrum „Normative Ordnungen“, dem Forschungscluster „ConTrust – Vertrauen im Konflikt“ und der hessischen Film- und Medienakademie; realisiert mit Mitteln des Adickes-Fonds der Goethe Universität