Afterimage Revisited: Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha, Brazil, 1964)
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Afterimage Revisited
BIMI celebrates during 2024 the radical British film journal Afterimage, which ran from 1970 to 1987, with a selection of its contents now available in The Afterimage Reader, published by Mark Webber’s Visible Press. Afterimage was launched amid an explosion of radical and experimental cinema, which included revolutionary new work from Latin America as well as avant-garde films from artists and co-ops on both sides of the Atlantic. Its subsequent path through many kinds of avant-garde cinema would include rediscovering early film as an inspiration for contemporary filmmakers, original writing by Peter Wollen and Laura Mulvey, Noel Burch and Michael O’Pray, and the celebration of filmmakers ranging from Hollis Frampton, Yvonne Rainer and Michael Snow to Raul Ruiz, Derek Jarman, Jan Svankmajer and the Quay brothers. These screenings revisit some of Afterimage’s enthusiasms and inspirations.
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha, Brazil, 1964)
Glauber Rocha’s stunning epic, set among the dispossessed in Brazil’s north-east badlands, proclaimed a renaissance in Latin American production at the Cannes Festival in 1964, quickly followed by a military coup in its country of origin that lent urgency to the film’s revolutionary message. Recently restored, this film launches a series of screenings marking the publication of The Afterimage Reader – the magazine carried an interview with Rocha in its first issue in 1970. Simon Field, founding Afterimage editor and Mark Webber, publisher of the Reader will attend.
Contact name:
Matthew Barrington