JUNE 3-9, 2024 • TREEHOUSE, LAGOS + VIRTUAL
SUDANESE EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA
Join us in May - June 2024 for the first segment of our “National Cinemas” series, focused on Sudan and the works of the Sudanese Film Group.
Art for the People: African National Cinemas looks at the emergence of “national” policies for cinema production in the era of decolonization movements and later postcolonial independent states in four countries, Nigeria, Sudan, Cameroon and Mozambique. This project looks critically at the frame of the “nation” as a fraught ideological and material context in which African films were made, promoted, circulated in the post-independence era. Each of these contexts, while harnessing the idea of the nation, offered very different approaches to the daunting task of decolonizing the image, and the role of cinema in creating a sense of collective, if not national identity, and political consciousness.
May 4th, 2024 in-person screening at Treehouse Lagos at 6PM, followed by a discussion with two of our curators, Ese & Dara.
Program (physical)
Al Mahatta (The Station) 1989, Eltayeb Mahdi, 16’
Al Dhareeh (The Tomb) 1977, Eltayeb Mahdi, 16’
Wa Lakin Alardh Tadur (It Still Rotates) 1978, Suliman Elnour, 19’
‘جمل’ Jamal, (A Camel) 1981, Ibrahim Shaddad, 14’
‘إنسان’ Insan (Human Being) 1994, Ibrahim Shaddad, 27’
June 3-9, 2024, online screening, accompanied by a transcript of a conversation with the Sudanese Film Group.
Program (virtual)
‘جمل’ Jamal, (A Camel) 1981, Ibrahim Shaddad, 14’
‘إنسان’ Insan (Human Being) 1994, Ibrahim Shaddad, 27’
Al Habil (The Rope), 1985, Ibrahim Shaddad, 31’