The Black Altantic and the Politics of Self-Representation in the Cinema: A Critical Analysis of Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2019)
Kino des DFF Schaumainkai 41, FrankfurtLecture & 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, …
Diasporic Aesthetics, Intermedial Dialogues. The films of Nicolás Guillé Landrián
Kino des DFF Schaumainkai 41, FrankfurtLecture & 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 …
The Intimacies of Four Continents in Caribbean Cinema
Kino des DFF Schaumainkai 41, FrankfurtLecture & 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 …
West Indies, the Black Atlantic and Knowledge: Med Hondo’s Ambulatory Cinema
Kino des DFF Schaumainkai 41, FrankfurtLecture & 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 …
Ruptures Beyond the Frame
Kino des DFF Schaumainkai 41, FrankfurtLecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“ Lecture: Awa Konaté (Abu Dhabi / London) This presentation explores the significance of curating Black Atlantic cinema as an essential curatorial praxis of memory work, focusing on its capacity to confront double consciousness and offer alternatives for Black survival. Engaging with W.E.B. Du Bois’ notion of seeing oneself “through the eyes …