Filmmaker and programmer-in-residence Amir George of Chicago’s Black Cinema House,
and Los Angeles based curator Erin Christovale, are presenting their
next screening of short films they call Black
Radical Imagination, next month in Los Angeles.
If you’re still uncertain what is meant by Black Radical
Imagination, here’s the best description of it from actress CCH Pounder:
Black
Radical Imagination is a carefully selected body of work inquiring and
responding to what it means to be black in the 21st century. Through the labor
of several upcoming artists from the US and internationally these visions are
maneuvered and crafted with the aid of technology. Encased in a futurist
aesthetic these artists claim themselves as individuals re-appropriating their
own stories while simultaneously creating within the entity of the African
Diaspora. The vibrancy and electric energy of each story provides enquiries and
responses on race, double consciousness, nationalism and queerness. All of
these themes are set in the pieces to challenge the ideas of
imaginative-stagnancy in the black community and to further the progression of
creation.
The films in the series will be screened at REDCAT (The CalArts Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts) located at 631 W. 2nd St in L.A., on Monday October 7th and will include:
Cristina
De Middel’s Afronauts (2013)Jacolby Satterwhite’s Reifying Desire 2 (2012)
Amir George’s Mae’s
Journal (2013)Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Split Ends I Feel Wonderful (2012)
Cauleen Smith’s The Changing Same (2001)
Anansi Knowbody’s Quiescence
Interrupted… Adumbrate (2013)Adebukola Bodunrin & Ezra Clayton Daniels’ Golden Chain (2103)
Wanuri Kahiu’s
Pumzi (2009, pictured above)
For more information about the REDCAT L.A. screening go
HERE.
