Waves: Black Atlantic Shorts
Waves: Black Atlantic Shorts
Four short films showcasing contemporary filmmakers from the Black Atlantic diaspora. From the islands of Cape Verde we travel towards Cuba and the US, before ending our journey in Brazil. Accompanied by a Q&A with multidisciplinary artist Ethel Tawe.
Waves is the main screening of the programme Black Atlantic Visions, consisting of four short films highlighting contemporary filmmakers from across the Black Atlantic diaspora. Our journey starts on the Cape Verdean islands with Ulime (2010) by Tambla Almeida, a quiet and experimental tale about the exhausted post-colonial landscape of the islands.
Then floats towards Cuba, for the spiritual lore of Everlane Moraes’ Pattaki (2019), and the United States for the absurdist and macabre lessons of Everybody Dies! by Nuotama Bodomo. Finally stranding at the fast-paced and unruly Brazilian short Remendo (2023). This screening ends with a discussion, together with multidisciplinary artist Ethel Tawe.
Programmers of the Future
Waves is part of the Black Atlantic Visions programme, composed by Programmer of the Future Janilda Bartolomeu. Black Atlantic Visions is a nuanced and genre-defying programme showcasing Afro-diasporic cinema that focuses on Black outlooks, which see through colonial, consensus reality.
First cohort
This summer, three Programmers of the Future present their first film programmes in Eye. They are part of the first cohort of a traineeship for future film programmers, set up by Eye in 2022.
Programme
Ulime (Tambla Almeida, CV 2010)
Trapped in a cycle of colonial exploitation, our forgotten hero Blimundo braves the exhausted landscape of his island and finds a way to release himself from isolation.
Pattaki (Everlane Moraes, CU 2019)
Shrouded in moonlight and trapped by water scarcity, inhabitants are hypnotized by Yemaya, goddess of the sea.
Everybody Dies! (Nuotama Bodomo, US 2016)
A public access tv show in which Ripa the (grim) reaper teaches black kids about the day they'll die.
Remendo (Roger Gomes Ghil, BR 2023)
Zé carries a burden. Why do you keep on mending all these things that are not worth it anymore? This screening ends with a Q&A with Roger Ghil and multidisciplinary artist Ethel Ruth Tawe whose work is part of the Black Atlantic Visions exhibition at MACA.
Read Janilda Bartolomeu's essay on the Black Atlantic Visions programme in our online magazine.
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Details
Production year
2023
Length
104 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
Programmers of the Future 2023
This summer, three Programmers of the Future present their first film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum. Programmers Janilda Bartolomeu, Korée Wilrycx and Kseniia Bespalova are among the very first to take part in Eye’s talent development programme for future film programmers, set up in 2022. The programme will feature cinema from the African diaspora that counters the notion of a singular reality, female artists on masculinity and alternative visual geographies of the former Soviet Union.
Eye Film Player
The Programmers of the Future each present an additional programme on Eye Film Player. Every week from 7 July, new titles will be available to watch at home. The films selected by Janilda Bartolomeu will be available from 14 July.
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