The JGPACA Podcast returns with another special conversation from the vaults. This time we bring you a sit down with Tunisian artist Maya Louhichi. We explored her work and relationship to her father, the renowned filmmaker and writer Taïeb Louhichi.
Find out more and see her work at @maya.louhichi or mayalouhichi.com
This podcast brings you all a fascinating and inspiring screening & Q and A between June Givanni and Amani Naphtali from earlier this Autumn. Please do seek out Amani's work and you can watch a film of his groundbreaking play 'Raggamuffin' at Brixton's Ritzy on December 12th hosted by JGPACA! Amani Naphtali is a trained dramatist, writer, director and filmmaker. He was a founder member of Double Edge Theatre Company. His plays include Songs of Songs and Ragamuffin. He also wrote and directed the film The Black Bohemians, and the short film Circles of Fire.
On Friday the 13th September we were honoured to show the seminal film 'Twilight City' as part of our JGPACA film club. The Director, - and key member of the Black Audio Film Collective - Reece Auguiste sat down that afternoon with our archival team for a wide ranging and insightful conversation about Reeces' process, his artistic influences and the impetus behind the making of the film.
This episode is a very special exploration of the life and films of Nicolás Guillén Landrián and is the third in our collaborative JGPACA series entitled African Film Heritage and Restitution. We were delighted to work on such vital work with Dr Jessica Gordon-Burroughs (Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Visual Culture at University of Edinburgh) and Nikolaus Pernezcky (a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary in London). If you enjoy, please do check out our earlier Restitution Episodes too. Written and produced by Jessica Gordon-Burroughs and Nikolaus Pernezcky. Mix and sound design by benjin. Interviews and the restoration of Inside Downtown were conducted with the support of a University of Edinburgh College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Impact Fund Award as well as follow-on funding from the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
In July, the JGPACA team welcomed to the archive the seminal filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah to explore what items and artefacts from her illustrious career were in our holdings. We were delighted to present to her a variety of film stills, interviews, reviews, publicity and photographs —- not to mention copies of her films dating back to her debut work Coffee Coloured Children in 1988. After her visit, the archive team sat down in our screening room for a conversation about her wider practice and its ongoing cultural importance within pan african film discourse. Also, we got the chance to discuss her exciting upcoming projects. Enjoy!
ToFor today’s episode we bring you a very special conversation between filmmaker, academic and JGPACA director Imruh Bakari and Dr Boukary Sawadogo, associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Black Studies at The City College of New York. Held in association with the Global Cultures Institute at King’s College London, this event took a deep dive into Boukary’s practice and the complexities of teaching students about Pan African Culture.
Today's podcast is a wide and enriching conversation we had at the archive following a screening of D Elmina Davis' seminal documentary about women in Rastafari from 1988 called Omega Rising. This film was shown as part of a double bill with Nicholas Chauderge's, Born-in-a Babylon, which documents the enduring Rastafari communities in north and east London at the turn of the millennium. The discussion begins with a conversation between academics Carmen Andall-Woodroofe and Dr. Aleema Gray in response to these works. However, we were also very lucky to have in attendance a family who were featured in omega rising and also someone who worked on the film. They generously shared their thoughts and reflections about working with 'Sister D' and their experiences growing up as a Rastafari in the UK! Enjoy
Today’s episode takes us back to November 2023, when we hosted a screening of Imruh Bakari’s Film, Riots and Rumours of Riots at the May Day Rooms in central London. We were lucky enough to hold a discussion with Imruh afterwards about the process of making the film and also hear a selection of his poetry! Enjoy!
This spotlight episode stems from a Zine Making workshop which was the second part of an event series called ‘Publishing and Archiving beyond the mainstream’. These sessions were put on alongside our Friends at the May Day Rooms, and invited young people to creatively respond to the archive, learn more about Junes work in co-founding the Black Film Bulletin, and also the influence of its American counterpart the Black Film review.
Episode 2 of the Pan African Cinema Podcast is a panel conversation on African film heritage featuring four eminent African filmmakers, Jihan El-Tahri (Egypt), Ali Essafi (Morocco), Nii-Kwate Owoo (Ghana) and Jean-Marie Téno (Cameroon). We talked about Africa's displaced, contested and silenced film archives, the recuperation of archival images by means of found footage filmmaking, and the case for moving image restitution. This episode is produced by June Givanni, Feven Haile and Nikolaus Perneczky with support from the Freelands Foundation.
Welcome to the Pan African Cinema Podcast. In the first five episodes, we will be asking filmmakers, archivists and cultural activists what the recently renewed call for restitution and reparations means for African film heritage, what forms the restitution of moving images might take, and how to confront persistent obstacles. Our guest in this episode is Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Téno.With extracts from You Hide Me (Nii-Kwate Owoo, Ghana/UK, 1970), The God of Kom (Fon Quinter, Cameroon, 2017), Afrique, je te plumerai / Africa, I Will Fleece You (Jean-Marie Téno, Cameroon/France/Germany, 1992) and Les Bicots-nègres vos voisins (Med Hondo, France, 1974).Links:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/youhideme
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thegodofkom
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/183759
https://patrimoines-heritage.tv/
