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The Precarity of African Spectacle

November 6, 13, & 20, 2023 (Concluded)
FILM SERIES | PANEL DISCUSSIONS
A selection of films from across the African continent and diaspora that contend with the social and political dimensions of Racial Ecologies.

An IGNITE Series Campus Project

Curated by Istifaa Ahmed (Ph.D. candidate, American Studies), Maria Cecilia Azar (Cecilia), (Ph.D. candidate, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies), Isaac Essex (Ph.D. candidate, American Studies), JD Stokely (Ph.D. candidate Theatre Arts and Performance Studies), Macarena Gómez-Barris (Professor of Modern Culture and Media)

The Racial Ecologies Collective (REC) emerges from the ecological ruin wrought by capitalism and coloniality. A proposed series of talks, performances, workshops, and screenings explores global structures of colonial power and the aesthetic responses of minoritarian artists and theorists to accelerating conditions of environmental and social ruin and resurgence.

The Precarity of African Spectacle film series is a selection of film screenings that brings together a selection of films from across the African continent and diaspora that contend with the social and political dimensions of Racial Ecologies. We will offer free public screenings of feature films such as: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019); Akuol de Mabior’s No Simple Way Home (2022); Fyzal Boulifa’s Les damnés ne pleurent pas (The Damned Don’t Cry) (2022), and short films such Amartei Armar’s - Tsutsuè (2022), Akinola Davies Jr’s Lizard (2020), and Olive Nwosu’s - Egúngún (Masquerade) (2021). 

The film screenings will take place at the Granoff Center for Creative Arts - Martinos Auditorium, Mondays 6th, 13th, and 20th November 2023 between 6pm - 10pm. Each evening’s screenings will feature a short film and feature film, followed by a Q&A session with the director of the feature film, ending with a small reception for audience members to engage more informally. 

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The event is presented as part of the Brown Arts IGNITE series, in collaboration with the Department of Modern Culture and Media, Magic Lantern Cinema, the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs’s Africa Initiative, the Graduate African Student Organisation (GASO) and the Department of French and Francophone Studies.

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