The Birth of Black Radical Traditions in Film

This Saturday, 2nd of July 2022, TURN 2 curatorial residents at NCAI, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro and Kathy-Ann Tan will begin their curatorial residency programming with an intimate film screening titled The Birth of Black Radical Traditions in Film: from the L.A. Rebellion to Kuxa Kanema, to be followed by a short Q& A and discussion. The selected films trace the transnational trajectories of the Black Radical Tradition in film and media. The first four experimental films are from the L.A. Rebellion, a group of young Black filmmakers who studied at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in the 1960s. These short films from the 1970s depict the struggles of Black communities living in south-central L.A., while tenderly and poetically crafting alternative visual narratives of freedom, liberation and social justice. Also screening is Kuxa Kanema - O Nascimento do Cinema (Kuxa Kanema - the Birth of Cinema), a documentary from…