SCREENINGS Ten films, including features and documentaries and eleven videos were screened during the course of the festival. This year’s festival selection highlighted works from Portuguese-speaking African countries and works …
This year’s program is an electric mix of twelve features and seven short films from seventeen different countries, with eight features making their world or North American premieres. “Planet Africa” …
Notes for the Cultural Historian of Film An act of social historiography which addresses cinema aims to calculate the importance of films within a world larger than film. Since the …
15 July 2000 I was on my way home via the A train to Brooklyn feeling kind of drained. Maybe it was from the good cry I had had at …
Through the starkness of Peck’s iconic choices and the poetic character of the voiceover, we are moved to a certain comprehension of the incommensurable. Raoul Peck occupies a liminal space …
As we begin the twenty-first century, we are witnessing a great revolution in media and communication capabilities that is drastically reducing the distances between cultures. Images, sounds, and ideas are …
For half a century, African nations have constructed modern identities from traditional and colonial experiences. For half a decade, The New York African Film Festival has bridged the divide between …
In the last decade, anti-apartheid films with South Africa as a backdrop, have generally been English language, Hollywood productions, with white protagonists, often played by big-name Hollywood actors. The narrative …
Since 1993, the New York African Film Festival has been the most effective means of placing Africa in the heart and imagination of a broadly defined public. The cinema cultivates …
African cinema has been around for forty years now. Most of the early films were either idealized portraits of a pre-colonial Africa, anti-colonial political tracts, or transitional stories about the …
In April 1993 the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the African Film Festival, Inc., and The Brooklyn Museum presented Modern Days, Ancient Nights: 30 Years of African Filmmaking, a comprehensive …
It is self-evident that specific historical, cultural, socio-economic and political conjunctions result in the emergence of different race relations patterns in the Americas. Brazil and the Caribbean countries, for example, …
Following on the success of last year’s “Modern Days, Ancient Nights: Thirty Years of African Filmmaking” — the largest celebration of African cinema ever held in New York — the …
“Modern Days, Ancient Nights” celebrates thirty years of filmmaking by African filmmakers – a period begun with the release of Ousmane Sembène’s extraordinary, ground-breaking short film Borom Sarret. Of course, other Africans had already made films, both in Europe and in Africa, …
