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