Film screening & conversation with Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero.

Our second autumn seminar welcomes Colombian-Caribbean, Berlin-based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero. After screening of the RAI 2023 festival-acclaimed film “La Nave” (2021), Atabey will join us for a conversation about their creative research practice – one that foregrounds living heritage, and the embodiment and participation in resistance histories. Atabey’s work draws from different collective struggles for liberation and intersectional solidarities, prioritizing joy, humanity as hopeful collective effort, interdependence, and intergenerational transmission; exploring how communities’ artistic engagement serves for a rooted anthropological practice beyond institutions.

EVENT SCHEDULE:

18:00-18:20 — social time for attendees whilst the equipment is being tested

Latest 18:20 — event starts

18:30-19:30 — La Nave film screening:

La Nave translates the meaning and spirit of Carnival de Barranquilla during a year in which gatherings were forbidden. Through clandestinely filmed performances with members of many different communities—indigenous, trans, queer, rural, Afro-Colombian and radical outsiders among them—Maria Romero recreates northern Colombia’s largest cultural event as an essayistic performance film, demonstrating how Carnival is a lifeblood to its many diverse participants.

19:30-20:00 — Post-screening Q&A and a conversation with the filmmaker.

20:00 — event ends

NOTE:

Please see this map for directions how to get to the venue. You won’t need a uni ID to enter the campus through the main door of the Richard Hoggart Building (RHB). If you have issues with finding us, message us on the day on Instagram (@kontekst.collective) and one of us will come pick you up from the main uni entrance.

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