Excited to share news of this program—Revolutionary Reveries: Four Films by the Sankofa Film and Video Collective—now playing on Criterion Channel, including the streaming premiere of a new restoration of The Passion of Remembrance. Resonant, dynamic work: criterionchannel.com/revolutionary-…

Coming to the Criterion Channel in April: Prismatic Ground 🇵🇸 Presents! 💜 criterion.com/current/posts/…

if you’re a film worker and looking for a non-genocidal letter to sign, consider #filmworkersforpalestine

filmworkersforpalestine.org

Today

Worth saying: This is textbook counterinsurgency. Right out of the field manual. Maintain narrative (in this case the Israel/US pro genocide one) and set up listening sessions to 'hear from' the communities your policies are harming. Literally 101 psychological warfare

BREAKING: Hundreds of trade unionists are blockading major arms factories in England and Scotland that manufacture weapons supplied to Israel.

We will not stand by as weapons made in Britain are used to commit genocide against the Palestinian people! #ShutItDown4Palestine

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish reciting his Poem of the Land

World Poetry Day

the american project is an ongoing, incessant, unrelenting project of settler colonialism. it is a violent project. the flag is the iconography of that violence. there is no rescuing the meaning of the flag when it is still being used to displace, colonize and violate globally.

Now on Mizna Online: 'Dispatch from Gaza' by huda, a 19-year-old writing from Gaza and currently displaced in Rafah. Huda thinks of writing as her way of practicing resilience—a sanctuary so that the devastation does not consume her spirit.

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march 22-28 BAM Film

delighted to collab with Triple Canopy again for STANDARD DEVIATIONS: daring artists using cinema to escape censorship, law, decorum ✨

tmw 7pm: Bill Gunn taking Hollywood money to deliver an erotic vampire experiment in black cultural autonomy

TONIGHT 7:15pm

OUVERTURES (2020, The Living and the Dead Ensemble): an experimental retracing of the Haitian Revolution

TOMORROW at 6:30pm

STATELESS (2020, Michèle Stephenson): documentary about organizing against anti-Haitian DR policies + Q&A with director

Anthology Film Archives

THREE REVOLUTIONARY FILMS BY OUSMANE SEMBÈNE 💜 Entering the collection in May! criterion.com/boxsets/7304-t…

The Senegalese auteur took his career-long project—to unlock cinema’s potential as a vehicle for social change—in increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s.

Our new box set includes:
•New conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of African Film Festival, Inc., and Amy Sall
•The Making of “Ceddo,” a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
•An essay by yasmina
•New covers Ify Chiejina
and more!

Please repost this if you can. We are urgently raising funds for medical supplies because someone we have been working with is headed to the border with Egypt. You can donate at sudansolidarity.com. Thank you so much for your solidarity! #KeepEyesOnSudan

Happy birthday to pioneering filmmaker Jessie Maple Patton! Maple left a successful bacteriologist career in the 1970s to pursue filmmaking, becoming the first Black woman admitted to the New York Cinematographer’s Union after a prolonged discrimination lawsuit. #JessieMaple

📢Join us March 8-9 for “Autonomy Amid Fascism” at Brown University. Inspired by the Pendleton 2, the symposium has grown into a beautiful gathering. I’ll be hosting a study circle/cypher/seminar on day 1!