Screens: A Panafrica Film Series (Chicago)

For modern and contemporary artists working between Africa and the diaspora, film and photography have been tremendously important forms of creative expression. The six moving-image makers featured in Screens share the planetary hopes of Pan-Africanism, a set of bold visions first developed before 1900 that have galvanized global struggles for freedom and solidarity ever since. The films […]

Sarah Maldoror – An Alternative Identity (Tapies Foundation)

The season of films Sarah Maldoror. An Alternative Identity responds to the need to network with the city’s institutions to develop a de-localised programme and the desire to highlight a pioneer of African film like Sarah Maldoror, who left us a wonderful legacy on the subject of negritude. The season sets out to revisit Maldoror’s work, as […]

Exhibition Black Planet 

Pan-Africanism, first named and theorized around 1900, is commonly regarded as an umbrella term for political movements that have advanced the call for both individual self-determination and global solidarity among peoples of African descent. It has yet to be fully examined as a worldview that takes its force from art and culture. As the first […]