Spring Screening Series| Restitution CinemaRestitution Cinema is a film program that considers the impossibility of repair, and the traction in reaching for it anyways. It is about the many errant pathways towards recovery, removed from the idealism of a pure precolonial, pre-contact past, and rooted in the material, psychic and embodied ways of restoring our cultural endowments in the current anti-colonial terrain. This presentation includes the films Dahomey dir. Mati Diop (2024), You Hide Me dir. Nii Kate Owo (1980), Statues Also Die dir. Alain Resnais and Chris Marker originally commissioned by Présence Africaine (1953) and The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets (2018) dir. Adam and Zach Kahlil (2018), as well as a Kumina performance accompanying the screening of A Story of Bones (2023) dir. Annina Van Neel and finally a case study panel and screening of four Actualités Senegalaises (Senegalese newsreels) recently returned to the Government’s national archive. The program will take place over the course of March 2025 at the Penn Museum. Restitution Cinema is organized and curated by Farrah Rahaman, Deborah A. Thomas and Hakimah Abdul-Fattah, alongside CAMRA and the Center for Experimental Ethnography. Please enter the Museum through the EAST ENTRANCE. If you are walking towards the museum from campus, this means walking down South Street until the furthest end of the museum, and taking a right once you approach the garages on Convention Avenue. Explore the reading list linked here. |
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March 7: Interiors | Rainey Auditorium, 6:00pm-8:00pm
March 15: A Story of Bones + Kumina Performance | Widener Auditorium, 6:00pm-8:00pm
March 17: The Missing Image | Public Trust, 6:00pm-8:00pm
March 15: A Story of Bones + Kumina Performance | Widener Auditorium, 6:00pm-8:00pm
March 17: The Missing Image | Public Trust, 6:00pm-8:00pm
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