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for @criterion, my essay “History in the Remaking” on Sembène’s 1970s trio ✨ Emitaï (1971), Xala (1975) & Ceddo (1977): the apex of a politically robust and aesthetically virtuosic filmography by a cultural worker who saw cinema as a night school & a call to arms for liberation
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“THE BLACK WORKER” extended program notes in @mubinotebook: a little history, a little context and a few takes on what continues to be a cultural and political battleground starting TODAY @BAMfilmBrooklyn and screening until feb 13
my next @BAMfilmBrooklyn program “THE BLACK WORKER” Feb 7-13 cinematic negotiations with race, class, and gender through an internationalist lens, tracing histories of rebellion, riot, and resistance in interdependent struggles over wages, political rights, and everyday life
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friday feb 7 at 7pm opens THE BLACK WORKER with Soleil Ô (1970, Med Hondo) + Fannie’s Film (1981, Fronza Woods) an experimental attack on capitalism & colonialism + quietly powerful portrait of an elderly cleaner followed by a conversation + q&a with @Bronxbanlieue and me
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“BLACKOUT 1973” January 10-20th @AnthologyFilm an oppositional Black lens on the politics and culture of an earlier period of fractures & upheavals Sunday Jan 12th 7:30pm Cuban + Brazilian + Ethiopian-American shorts with post-screening conversation with Nzingha Kendall & me
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“tell no lies, claim no easy victories” i wrote about mati diop’s haunting, sculpted documentary “dahomey” + the seductive illusions of “decolonizing colonization” + the relay of an inherited, intergenerational struggle for self-determination
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RT @Harmony_Holiday: Thank you Nikki Giovanni 'Then I awoke and dug that if I dream natural dreams, of being a natural woman, of doing wha…
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Mati Diop DAHOMEY Chris Marker & Alain Resnais STATUES ALSO DIE Dec 13 at 7:30 PM + Q&A Jean-Marie Teno AFRICA, I WILL FLEECE YOU Dec 14 at 5:30 PM Short Program + Q&A Dec 14 at 7:45 PM + Q&A DE GROOF + DIAWARA Dec 15 at 7:00 PM
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“but again, what is an honest election after the fact of monopoly capital?” (george jackson, blood in my eye)
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RT @queersocialism: remotely detonated pagers. casually maiming 4000. and you are telling me with a straight face our best hope to escape t…
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RT @amy_sall: Happy U.S. Pub Day to The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power! 🧡🖤🧡🖤 My book is officially out stateside. 📙📙📙 Tha…
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RT @amy_sall: Second screening: a Mambéty Double of his two shorts: Le Franc + The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun (1994) at 6:20pm. Two class…
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RT @amy_sall: First screening: Med Hondo’s Sarraounia (1986) at 3:40pm. This is a rare opportunity to catch this gem because it’s not scree…
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RT @amy_sall: Excited to mark the release of The African Gaze at @Metrograph this Saturday, September 21 🧡📙🖤 ( H…
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RT @micahinATL: SOME RARE GOOD NEWS: the Georgia Attorney general is dropping the money laundering charges in the STop Cop City RICO case a…
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RT @ultradogme: We, the editors of Ultra Dogme, will not be covering the New York Film Festival this year, in accordance with the boycott o…
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