Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“

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 or European money Nigerian filmmakers in the 1990s started a film industry from scratch and on their own terms. Initially influenced by Brazilian soap operas Nigerian …

Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“ Lecture: Iyabo Kwayana (London) Lecture: Terror and the Time: A Reflection on Poetic Resistance This talk will explore the poetry of Martin Carter as a powerful source of anti-colonial resistance, particularly within the context of Guyanese social and cultural movements. As the child of Eusi Kwayana, one of the interviewees …

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) was the first feature-length film made in the Wolof language, following Senegalese independence in 1960. The protagonist Ibrahima (Makhouredia Gueye), an endearingly feckless unemployed man who lives with his two wives and …

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 grainy aesthetics, the militancy of the imperfect image, the subversive qualities of the damaged 16mm print, when a film enters the artistic canon? This talk will compare …

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 …

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 …

Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“ Lecture: Karina Griffith (Berlin) Karina Griffith is a curator and film and media scholar. She is currently a Guest Professor for Intersectional Visual and Media Theory at Universität der Künste Berlin. Weitere Informationen und Programm: Hier…

Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“ Lecture: Karina Griffith (Berlin) Lecture: Two islands and the hope for another future. The gaze of two poetic women filmmakers Anouchka de Andrade is a curator and archivist dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the works of Sarah Maldoror. Weitere Informationen und Programm: Hier…

Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“ Lecture: Ayo Coly (Dartmouth) Lecture: African Boats and Scenes of Mourning in the Postcolonial Black Atlantic In this presentation, I query the trope of the African migrant boat in recent African cinemas. The trope has emerged in response to the phenomenon of the so-called “death-boats” that attempt to smuggle African …

Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“ Lecture: Femi Shaka Lecture: The Black Altantic and the Politics of Self-Representation in the Cinema: A Critical Analysis of Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2019) 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 …

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 …

Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“ Lecture: Usha Iyer (Stanford) Lecture: The Intimacies of Four Continents in Caribbean Cinema This 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 …