Between 2018 and 2020, the KCL-based German Screen Studies Network ran a DAAD-funded research project, Circulating Cinema, exploring archival holdings in national archives that told stories of exile, migration and territorial displacement. Our work continues on January 7 2023 with a BFI study day on the Sudanese exile filmmaker Hussein Shariffe.
Since 2020, Erica Carter, Laurence Kent, Samar Abdelrahman and other KCL colleagues have been working with Shariffe’s daughter, Eiman Hussein, as well as archivists, filmmakers and curators from the Sudan Film Factory and the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin, to retrieve and recirculate films by this luminary of postwar Sudanese film. There will be screenings of Shariffe’s DISLOCATION OF AMBER (1975) and TIGERS ARE BETTER LOOKING (1979), and panel discussions with curators, writers, archivists, and scholars of African film. Confirmed speakers include Imruh Bakari, Awa Konate, Samar Abdelrahman, Umloda Ibrahim, Nikolaus Perneczky, Kulraj Phullar, Kate Ashley, Laurence Kent. All welcome!
WHEN: January 7 2023
WHERE: BFI Southbank, NFT3
Tickets available here.