for @criterion, my essay “History in the Remaking” on Sembène’s 1970s trio ✨ Emitaï (1971), Xala (1975) & Ceddo (1977): the apex of a politically robust and aesthetically virtuosic filmography by a cultural worker who saw cinema as a night school & a call to arms for liberation

“THE BLACK WORKER” extended program notes in @mubinotebook: a little history, a little context and a few takes on what continues to be a cultural and political battleground starting TODAY @BAMfilmBrooklyn and screening until feb 13 https://t.co/HiT8dnLOCU

friday feb 7 at 7pm opens THE BLACK WORKER with Soleil Ô (1970, Med Hondo) + Fannie’s Film (1981, Fronza Woods) an experimental attack on capitalism & colonialism + quietly powerful portrait of an elderly cleaner followed by a conversation + q&a with @Bronxbanlieue and me

my next @BAMfilmBrooklyn program “THE BLACK WORKER” Feb 7-13 cinematic negotiations with race, class, and gender through an internationalist lens, tracing histories of rebellion, riot, and resistance in interdependent struggles over wages, political rights, and everyday life

“BLACKOUT 1973” January 10-20th @AnthologyFilm an oppositional Black lens on the politics and culture of an earlier period of fractures & upheavals Sunday Jan 12th 7:30pm Cuban + Brazilian + Ethiopian-American shorts with post-screening conversation with Nzingha Kendall & me

“tell no lies, claim no easy victories” i wrote about mati diop’s haunting, sculpted documentary “dahomey” + the seductive illusions of “decolonizing colonization” + the relay of an inherited, intergenerational struggle for self-determination https://t.co/QC2BNkTL1D

Thank you Nikki Giovanni 'Then I awoke and dug that if I dream natural dreams, of being a natural woman, of doing what a woman does when she is natural, I would have a revolution.' And did.

“There is a real possibility that I can be the first person in my family to be free.” Thinking of this passage from Gemini, Giovanni’s autobiography, published in 1971.

Mati Diop DAHOMEY Chris Marker & Alain Resnais STATUES ALSO DIE Dec 13 at 7:30 PM + Q&A Jean-Marie Teno AFRICA, I WILL FLEECE YOU Dec 14 at 5:30 PM Short Program + Q&A Dec 14 at 7:45 PM + Q&A DE GROOF + DIAWARA Dec 15 at 7:00 PM

“DECOLONIZE THE MUSEUM?” my next series @AnthologyFilm FRIDAY Dec 13-15 The demand for the return of Africa’s looted cultural inheritance represents an intergenerational struggle of political & economic consequence, urgent for a contemporary youth deprived of their own past.

“but again, what is an honest election after the fact of monopoly capital?” (george jackson, blood in my eye)

remotely detonated pagers. casually maiming 4000. and you are telling me with a straight face our best hope to escape the horror is to elect the administration providing clearance for said horror. there are no words

Happy U.S. Pub Day to The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power! 🧡🖤🧡🖤 My book is officially out stateside. 📙📙📙 Thank you to all involved and everyone who’s shown love 🫶🏿

Second screening: a Mambéty Double of his two shorts: Le Franc + The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun (1994) at 6:20pm. Two classics from Djibril Diop Mambéty made toward the end of his life. Join @jasminprix and I for post-screening Q&A! https://t.co/4syZLlBUhG

First screening: Med Hondo’s Sarraounia (1986) at 3:40pm. This is a rare opportunity to catch this gem because it’s not screened often! After the screening, copies of The African Gaze will be available for purchase and I’ll be doing a signing in the lobby. https://t.co/PdNZJWiM3X

Excited to mark the release of The African Gaze at @Metrograph this Saturday, September 21 🧡📙🖤 ( https://t.co/PdNZJWiM3X) Here’s how it’s gonna go down:

We, the editors of Ultra Dogme, will not be covering the New York Film Festival this year, in accordance with the boycott of its parent organization, Lincoln Center, until it drops its zionist funders.

It won’t be forgotten that the western media’s response to the maiming of thousands of people is how “amazing” Israel’s tech is.

I’m not arguing with people about the word “terrorism” in 2024. To require reality be validated by the opposition before we can act accordingly is not a win it’s a cyclic humiliation that reifies the same structures used against us.

still relevant.