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Greg de Cuir Jr.: Avant-Noir: Experimental Media from the African Diaspora

Friday, January 19, 2018

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

IU Cinema
The poster for de Cuir Jr.'s Avant-Noir V2 presentation. "Avant-Noir V2" is in large text on the right side.   Additional text reads: "Experimental Media from the African Diaspora. Jan 19, 6:30 p.m. IU Cinema. go.iu.edu/1PEI. Curator Greg de Cuir Jr. and author Michael Gillespie ('Film Blackness') are scheduled to be present. Q&A on Curating Film (lunch provided). 11:30 a.m. Jan 22. Phyllis Klotman Room (LI044B). Black Film Center/Archive. Wells Library. Show & Tell Workshop. 1 p.m. Jan 26, Auxiliary Library Facility. 851 N. Range Road. RSVPS (bfca@indiana.edu) required."  The list of films text reads: "My Only Idol is Reality, directed by Martine Syms, 2007, 7 min. Bird's Milk, directed by Dineo Seshee Bopape, 2009, 6 min. Ditch Plains, directed by Loretta Fahrenholz, 2013, 30 min. Nice Baskets, directed by Luther Price, 2006, 8 min. Kuhani, directed by Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, 2013, 7 min. Short History of Abandoned Sets, directed by Rä di Martino, 2012, 8 min. Songs for Earth & Folk, directed by Cauleen Smith, 2013, 11 min."  Sponsors on the poster were The Media School, Black Film Center/Archive, The Indiana University Cinema, and the College Arts and Humanities Institute.

In presenting his first Avant-Noir program in 2014, independent moving image curator Greg de Cuir Jr. conceived of it as “an intervention into the status quo of alternative film and video curating.” This second volume continued his project with a collection of short films and videos from young and established artists both of African and non-African descent, who together play with identity and the notion of the personal as political; employ performance as a means to narrate social reality; and utilize archival footage to reconstruct the cinematic. He presented the program with Michael Boyce Gillespie, associate professor of film in the Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at the City College of New York, City University of New York. (HD/16mm Presentation)

This screening was sponsored by the Black Film Center/Archive, College Arts and Humanities Institute, Underground Film Series, Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Cinema and Media Studies, and IU Cinema. This partnership was supported through IU Cinema’s Creative Collaborations program.

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