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.

Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora

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.