Sustainable Cinema: Visions from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria
Screening and Q&A with Filmmakers
Monday, May 22nd 5-7 p.m. HG1010
Kapita (Ndaliko, 2020) Explores the legacy and current effects of copper, cobalt, coltan, and niobium mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By recoding archival footage and intertwining it with contemporary images, the film exposes patterns of extraction and burial to decode colonial representations – and exploitation – of Central African land and people.
Petna Ndaliko is from the Yira circle of belonging. He is a descendant of the Basukali clan from Masereka and Kitamiaka lands in the eastern part of today’s Democratic Republic of Congo. As a Ndaliko (sacred space), he is a memory keeper and storyteller with the Elephant kinship spirit. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, activist, and educator.
Michael Uwemedimo is co-founder and director of CMAP (Collaborative Media Advocacy Platform) in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and a Loeb Fellow, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. As the founding member of the film collaborative Vision Machine and producer of Academy-Award-nominated Act of Killing, he has developed innovative approaches to documentary practice to enable critical reflection on histories of political violence and challenges to official impunity.
People Live Here and Other Short Videos by the Chicoco Collective, Port Harcourt, Nigeria https://chicoco.fm/welcome-to-viral-times/
Co-sponsored by the UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, the Department of Film and Media Studies, and the Building Intellectual Community in Latin American and Caribbean Studies initiative.