Narratives from Africa and the Diaspora: Filmaking in Africa
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In April 2023 the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence hosted this conversation with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bekolo and scholar Alexie Tcheuyap at @kunst-undkulturhausneunein8931.
Jean-Pierre Bekolo is a filmmaker from Cameroon. He is considered to be one of the avant-garde filmmakers from the continent with a large oeuvre of 30 years suggesting each time new topics and new approaches to film genres and narrative modes.
Alexie Tcheuyap is Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Toronto, where is hold the position of Associate Vice-President & Vice-Provost. He has published extensively on the subject of African literatures, film and media, and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
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- Narratives from Africa and the Diaspora: Filmaking in Africa
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- English
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- June 11, 2023
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- uh good evening everybody this is my my name is ultra fendtler I'm a member of the cluster and it's my pleasure to welcome you tonight for a very special getting together with two special guests I'm very honored that they accepted our invitation to be here tonight so there's Professor Alexi triap and there's a filmmaker Jean-Pierre Piccolo I will say a little bit more about those the two persons who we'll be discussing tonight uh Professor Alexi choyap is professor at the University of Toronto he's a specialist in African francophone literatures and film with a focus on West Africa and Cameron mainly but he has widely published on on literatures on violence on Boko Haram on intertextuality so very very very very widely published so I'm very happy that he made it here from Toronto just for two days to be with us tonight so welcome professoria okay [Applause] and Professor Chia will so have a conversation with Jean-Pierre bekulu and I'm also very happy we are all very honored and happy that he also made it to buy Royals he has come he has been here several times he's uh I would say something like the orphan Teri bloody Cinema Franko fall but also the same time the the avant-garde filmmaker one of those ones who always sets the pace and also new themes and also new static um categories I would say so from its very first film in the 90s to his I don't know where to start I guess you will talk about this but he he also he in kind of invented let's say jar that haven't been there in African Cinema on the continent with the first Science Fiction with the first queer film um but then also a very political film about the city political situation and Cameroon with the president up to rule one of his more recent films about the afrodescendant population in Colombia so the LCC is a very large range of films and themes not to forget the documentaries also with a lot of interviews with intellectuals and very hot topics on on the continent also he's a fellow at the University of… Read the full text about 14,776 words
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