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Curator Amir George
Between other things, film curator Amir George has brought afrofuturism on screen through powerful travelling film programs under Black Radical Imagination and other platforms. We invited him to curate this screening with the intent of exploring time-roving and what it allows for our politics and imaginations. This program will encompass afrofuturist work as well as other film and video work addressing time and space explorations
Rovers
ROVERS is a 2 short evenings program
Friday July 8th (performance, visual art & videos): https://www.facebook.com/events/299282073737985/ & this one, Saturday July 9th: short film screening: "Roving into the Future" with Black Radical Imagination film co-curator Amir George. |
Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism is a literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the pas." "Afrofuturism addresses themes and concerns of the African Diaspora through a technoculture and science fiction lens, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared interest in envisioning black futures that stem from Afrodiasporic experiences." -Lisa Yaszek
< http://sdonline.org/42/afrofuturism-science-fiction-and-the-history-of-the-future/ > |
