Lecture/Screening:
Wednesday 25 February at 6:30pm
Lecture/Screening: Wednesday 25th February at 6:00 pm
Title: African Cities Film Series: "Documenting Postcolonial Cities: The Examples of Bamako and Conakry"
Guest Speaker: Awam Ampka, Associate Professor of Drama, Film Studies and Africana Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Venue: Second Floor Lecture Room (2046) School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology
Professor Awam Ampka will present the "African Cities Film Series" project, a collaborative documentary production by scholars and filmmakers in the Africana Studies Department, Tisch School for the Arts, NYU. Author of two forthcoming books titled Theatre, Colonialism and Postcolonial Desires and Homes and Border Crossings: Cinemas of the Black Atlantic, he is also assistant director and collaborator with scholar and filmmaker Manthia Diawara on the 'African Cities Project'. Wednesday's presentation will showcase the first film of this series shot in Mali, Bamako Sigi-Kan. Shot by acclaimed cinematographer Arthur Jaffa, Bamako is narrated in the form of a travel diary without commentary, an experimental documentation of city life in the form of a montage of images, music and everyday occurrences. Mediated through the photographic and the moving image, the film comments on contemporary Mali and the lived reality of competing modernities.
Films from this series will be screened in their entirety on Tuesday (24th February) in Lecture Room 5034 at 5:00pm; on Wednesday (25th February) at 6:00 pm, Lecture Room' 2046 and in excerpt form throughout Professor Ampka's presentation.
Professor Ampka is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Media Technologies and will also conduct a series of drama and visual storytelling workshops to fourth year students working on their final graduation projects.'
Please contact O'Brien (aine.obrien@dit.ie) for further information.
