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 …