“Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture & Film Series May – July 2025

May 6, ’25: Lecture “Post-colonialism or Post-nationalism: Third Cinema, Archives, and Decolonizing History” by Didi Cheeka

At the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.

All Infos: https://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/files/2025/04/Institutskolloquium-Cheeka-1.pdf

Every Thursday, May 8 – July ’25: Black Atlantic Cinema

Full Programme at: https://www.dff.film/kino/kinoprogramm/lecture-film/lecture-film-black-atlantic-cinema/

“Seeing oneself through the eyes … of a nation that looked back in contempt”: This is how
W.E.B. DuBois described the “double consciousness” which marks the life of subordinated
groups in oppressive societies. Moving beyond the frame of the nation state and national
cinemas, the concept of “Black Atlantic Cinema” considers a practice of film which spans the
space of three continents and a history of several centuries. In the Lecture & Film series
“Black Atlantic Cinema” scholars, curators and artists approach the ways in which
filmmakers deal with the challenge of double consciousness across the Black Atlantic, from
Africa to Brazil and the Caribbean to (post)colonial Europe.
The series is curated by Didi Cheeka, Daniel Fairfax and Vinzenz Hediger with support from
Feven Haile

Organized by the Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft of Goethe Universtät
and DFF in cooperation with ConTrust – Trust and Conflict in Political Life and supported by
the Hessische Film- und Medienakademie, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Afrika Studien der
Goethe Universität and Georg Foster Forum of Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
All talks in English. All events at Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum, Schaumainkai 41, 60596
Frankfurt am Main