Join us for the Triangle Screenings at MOVEMENTS selections from the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive Exhibition. Among the highlights, director Horace Ové will be a special guest at the launch day screening of PRESSURE on Thursday 16th October, 10:30am. Director Louis Massiah joins us for the screenings of Bombing of Osage Avenue and W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in 4 Voices on Friday 17th October. Directors Reece Auguiste [Twilight City], Amani Naphtali [Bohemian Noir] and Akim Mogaji [Made In Brixton] will also be special guests at the Triangle Screenings Q&A series. See the full programme of screenings and events at Chelsea College of Arts and Birkbeck, University of Londons Institute of the Moving Image at junegivannifilmarchive/the-programme/ June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive, in collaboration with University of the Arts at Chelsea College, University of London and Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image present: MOVEMENTS selections from the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive. June Givanni; archive founder and director, has amassed a 30 year personal collection of films and film related ephemera, to enhance awareness of the contributions of African Diaspora people to cinema as a story telling medium. The mission of the archive is to inspire and facilitate a public engagement with Pan African cinema, through curated programmes and in association with multi-disciplinary arts and community development principles locally, nationally and internationally. MOVEMENTS: 16-27 October 2014. Exhibition. Screenings. Discussions + Pan-African Cinema, Négritude and the Archive Conference. Co-curated by artists/collaborators Sonia Boyce, Nana Ocran and Paul Goodwin. MOVEMENTS will take place across two locations – University of the Arts London (Chelsea College of Arts Triangle and Cookhouse Galleries); and BIMI/ Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image. A three-day film screening will take place in the Triangle Gallery at Chelsea College of Arts. Films have been chosen for their thematic connection to ‘Cities.’ The screenings will feature classic and contemporary work by filmmakers from across the African Diaspora - including films by pioneering directors Horace Ové and Ousmane Sembène. The adjacent exhibition in the Cookhouse Gallery will showcase a series of connections between the various elements of the JGPACA archive such as film and festival posters, audio interviews and recordings with filmmakers artists and writers; and personal memories evoked through photographic collections including productions stills and snapshots. Pan-African Cinema, Négritude and the Archive will take place on Saturday 18th October at Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image. The free one-day international roundtable will examine the significance of the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive. Panels of pioneering filmmakers, curators, producers and writers will debate The Relevance of Pan-Africanism and Négritude in Cinema Now and explore issues connected to preserving legacy and archive. The conference will be introduced by June Givanni (archivist and curator) and special guest panellists will include: John Akomfrah and Reece Auguiste (both filmmakers from the former Black Audio Film collective), Imruh Bakari (scholar, curator and filmmaker from the former Ceddo film collective), Nadia Denton (producer and writer), Louis Massiah (filmmaker), Laura Mulvey (film scholar), and Euzhan Palcy (filmmaker). To register for the free conference, visit https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/bimi-pan-african-cinema-negritude-and-the-archive-tickets-12868950377 _______________________ JUNE GIVANNI PAN AFRICAN CINEMA ARCHIVE (JGPACA) junegivannifilmarchive/ twitter/JGPACA JGPACA Presents: Pan-African Cinema, Négritude and the Archive - Conference Programme bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/pan-african-cinema-negritude-and-the-archive by: June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive
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