Dr. Maja Figge and Prof. Dr. Christine Hanke on the circulations of African militant cinemas

Abstract

Abstract: In this episode, Cluster fellow Dr. Maja Figge talks with her host Prof. Dr. Christine Hanke about her research that focusing on the notion of circulation. During her fellowship, Figge scrutinized the transtemporal bonds between militant African cinemas and Afro-diasporic post-cinemas, a research that contributed to her recent book project, a collection of essays entitled “Black (Post-)Cinemas: Genealogies, Practices, Aesthetics”.

People & roles

Guest(s): Figge, Maja; Hanke, Christine

Origins & context

Title: Dr. Maja Figge and Prof. Dr. Christine Hanke on the circulations of African militant cinemas
Language: English
Podcast series: Cluster Conversations
Date: September 27, 2026

Rights & access

Extent: 31 minutes, 31 seconds

Identifiers & sources

has URL: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_4-Public-engagement_-engagement1/Podcasts/ClusterConversations/Episode-14/index.html

Further details

Episode number: 14

Full text

[music] Speaker 1: Cluster Conversations, a podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Cluster Conversations. My name is Kristina Hanke. I am professor of digital and audiovisual media at Bayreuth University and member of the research section Knowledges in the cluster of excellence Africa Multiple. And I'm happy to welcome Doctor Maya Figge today who is fellow, has been fellow since some months this term. Maya Figge is, I would say, one of the most well-known German academics dealing with media and film theory and postcolonial and antiracism. I would put it like that, if you agree. Yeah, thanks for joining us today. We would like to talk a bit about your project you're following up here. Maybe you just tell us a bit what have you been doing here, what's your main topic and how is it linked to your former work? Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Kristina. During the fellowship here at the cluster, I work on a book project. I try to prepare the manuscript of a long ongoing project that I've been working on mainly by writing articles on the transtemporal bonds between militant African cinemas and Afro-diasporic post-cinemas. And it's called, the book project itself is called Black Post-Cinema Genealogies Practices Aesthetics. And in the book and also that work that I do here at the cluster, I take the coincidence of the recent proliferation of artistic and academic work on and with the archives of militant cinemas of the nineteen sixties and seventies motivated, I would say, as they are by present political urgencies and the coincident of those, this return to the archives with the discourse on post-cinema both occurring around twenty ten as a starting point to explore the centrality of circulation in both of them. And circulation because this is the this year's topic of the cluster, but also really in order to make a claim how they are genealogically linked to both through this practice of circulation. And with regard to the prior, my prior… Read the full text about 4,308 words