Episode 5 - Igniting Critical Consciousness And Radical Change - With Régine Romain

The symposium Visions for Liberation: Third Cinema Revisited explores the global resonances of the Third Cinema movement in the ‘here and now’ and asks how it renders for us a ‘there and then’ across its expansive contexts. Each panel of the symposium articulates how cinema is responding to the global and local sociopolitical concerns from which it emerges, and what kinds of calls to action are being made and to whom.

Women and non-binary filmmakers from Palestine, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Third spaces across the U.S. share their work and thoughts on a Third Cinema revisited and reinvented. In the spirit of Solanas and Getino’s inspired question, first posed on the pages of Tricontinental in Cuba, how, in the era of Netflix and DSLR and Vimeo, has Third Cinema continued to be the most important revolutionary artistic event of our times?

This panel will feature filmmakers who explore African diaspora spirituality in film. Artists will talk about the representation of African diaspora religion and spirituality in film and the experimental cinematic language they employ.

Panel 6: Ancestral Assemblages: 

Representing African Diaspora Spirituality in Film

• Moderator: Elena Guzman

• Panelists: Artist Marcia X, Barbara McCullough, Régine Romain

Regine Romain and invited guests - Dr. Nathalie Pierre (Historian) and Jennifer Celestin (Poet) gather on Tuesday, 12 January 2021 for an intimate conversation (re)membering the Haitian Earthquake on its 11th anniversary.

Together these three daughters of Ayiti will construct a necessary digital archive of “pawol fanm” as they gather the broken shards of their memories of this day and its aftermath.

The conversation will be hosted live on Zoom 12 January, 7 pm EST. Sign up below for the Meeting ID and Password. Attendance is free. Donations are accepted below.

A group of New York's finest Haitian dancers, singers, and drummers come together to share a sampling of the rich heritage of Vodou ceremonial dances, rhythms, and songs honoring the spirits of nature and the ancestors.  With choreographer/dancer/dance educator Peniel Guerrier,KONGO Haitian Roots Ensemble directed by Oneza Lafontant, and other special guests.

Sponsored by the Contemporary Music program at Eugene Lang College. 

Cost: Free admission, seating is first come, first served.

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