Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora

Previous Screenings

CETTE MAISON

2022 / Canada / Miryam Charles

Filmmaker Miryam Charles examines the murder of her teenage cousin ten years after her passing.

CARTE BLANCHE W/ JANAÍNA OLIVEIRA

2021 / Various / Various

A shorts package highlighting the myriad forms of Afro-Brazilian cinema, curated by Janaína Oliveira, PhD.

Join Janaína Oliveira, Yasmina Price, and Cauleen Smith for a discussion on Afro-Brazilian film, history, and culture

DIRECTOR’S CHOICE W/ CHRIS HARRIS

2014 / Various / Various

A shorts package highlighting the myriad forms of Afro-Brazilian cinema, curated by director Christopher Harris

REPÚBLICA + DAZED FLESH

2020 / Brazil / Grace Passô

A screening and discussion of Brazilian filmmaker Grace Passô’s República and Dazed Flesh.

Taking Brazil’s new Black cinema as its point of departure, Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora brings together filmmakers, artists, scholars, and critics from across the globe in order to inaugurate a practice of collective attunement. How can we best attune ourselves to the waves set in motion by this new cinema? How does Brazil’s current Black cinema resonate within contemporary aesthetic practices of the Black diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, North America and Europe? In what ways do these new formations of global cinemas refract our understanding of the post-colonial and of diaspora?

Organized by Christopher Harris (Cinematic Arts) with partnership from Brazilian film scholar, programmer, and teacher Janaína Oliveira and contemporary Brazilian literature and culture scholar Cristiane Lira (University of Georgia), this symposium will feature the emerging wave of young Afro-Brazilian filmmakers, curators, programmers, and scholars whose art and scholarship have already had an impact on the international cinema.

Frequências is brought to you by the following University of Iowa Co-Sponsors: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, International Programs, Office of the Vice President for Research, Departments of Cinematic Arts and Spanish & Portuguese, and the Consulate General of Brazil in Chicago.

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Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora

Previous Screenings

CETTE MAISON

2022 / Canada / Miryam Charles

CARTE BLANCHE W/ JANAÍNA OLIVEIRA

2021 / Various / Various

ARTIST INTERVENTIONS

2023 / /

DIRECTOR’S CHOICE W/ CHRIS HARRIS

2014 / Various / Various

REPÚBLICA + DAZED FLESH

2020 / Brazil / Grace Passô