Name: Black Entanglements
Start: 2024-07-14T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-14T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Blanc

Black Entanglements

Jupiter Magazine

Join us for our second screening series, ‘Black Entanglements,’  by Maya Cade's research on tenderness in Black film

Blanc

"Tenderness is what spurs motion into movement, desire into affirmative risk, and improvisation into rhythm. For Black people, I believe, tender gestures give us the will to live, to carry on, to pursue in a world that wants otherwise or life presents other obstacles. How does tenderness – defined here as pointed moments of affection where Black possibility, transformation, and connection bloom – offer a new mode of understanding our filmic past, present, and future?" —Maya Cade Black Entanglements builds on Jupiter's inaugural film series No One Is Going To Mythologize My Life (after Kathleen Collins). Here we draw from <a href="https://blackfilmarchive.com/About-the-Creator-Contact" title="https://blackfilmarchive.com/About-the-Creator-Contact" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Maya Cade</a>'s research around <a href="https://tenderness.blackfilmarchive.com/" title="https://tenderness.blackfilmarchive.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">tenderness in Black film</a> to consider the kaleidoscopic nature of Black intimacies by traversing the resuscitative valences of sisterhood (DRYLONGSO)‚ the "one night stand" as its own sanctified experiment in affection (Medicine for Melancholy), queer desire as negotiated against the backdrop of a broader social, material and political matrix (Rafiki), and the enmeshment between self, spirit, and society (Atlantiques). Each screening will begin with an offering of lyrical responses and questions by <a href="https://cms.uchicago.edu/people/ae-stevenson" title="https://cms.uchicago.edu/people/ae-stevenson" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Prof. AE Stevenson</a> and <a href="https://dennymwaura.com/" title="https://dennymwaura.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Denny Mwaura</a> for guests to consider as they watch. — July 14: DRYLONGSO by Cauleen Smith— July 28: Medicine for Melancholy by Barry Jenkins— August 11: Rafiki by Wanuri Kahiu— August 25: Atlantiques by Mati Diop

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Lyrical Offering & Framing Questions  

Screening 

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