Black Cinema, Dispossession, Memory, and Care: An Intergenerational Conversation is a program produced by Sankofa Film Academy in partnership with black rhizomes workshop at the REACH
Thursday July 14, 2022 7- 8:30pm est PT 109 in the Kennedy Center at the REACH
This event is free and open to the public.
Sankofa Film Academy’s final Culture Caucus installation in the Kennedy Center at the REACH will feature an intergenerational conversation with award-winning filmmakers Shirikiana Aina and Merawi Gerima. Historian and black rhizomes workshop organizer Aleia Brown will serve as their interlocutor, augmenting the conversation with provocations and connections with the audience.
Aina’s Brick by Brick (1982) and Gerima’s Residue (2020) offer a way of seeing, thinking and feeling through Black memory in Washington, DC, even as it is always already under threat of erasure. While both films are situated in DC, they feature moments that surface connected struggles throughout the Diaspora, pushing us to consider the utility of municipal limits. The filmmakers engage an ethic of care that attempts to visualize the weight of perennial dispossession without further exploiting our communities on the big screen.
In addition to discussing the sociopolitical implications of their films, the filmmakers will share how they cultivated a direction style based on instincts, sourced from training and sensibilities outside of film school.
We invite independent filmmakers, artists, and community organizers with a Black care praxis to participate in this conversation held in PT 109 at the REACH. Participants who RSVP will receive links to view the films ahead of the conversation. Participants will also have early access to future film workshops scheduled to launch through the Sankofa Film Academy in Washington, DC.
<aside> ⬛ **RSVP HERE | Register for tickets for free Residue screening after the conversation HERE**
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