BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:23272@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Reimagining African Independence DTSTAMP:20260601T215238Z DTSTART:20260603T150000Z DESCRIPTION:In 1968\, Augusta Conchilia\, a journalist and photographer\, w ent to Angola to\ndocument the guerrilla warfare conducted by the liberati on movement against the\nPortuguese occupation. Her documentary film A Pro posito dell’Angoloa (1971) drew\nthe attention of the international commun ity on the oppression of the Angolan\npeople. How can visual culture chall enge oppressive power systems? How does it\nraise questions of witnessing and responsibility vis-à-vis African independence\nmovements?\n\nThis even t is part of Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis’ Annual Conference\,\n this year titled “Wayward Visuality: The Question of Violence and Liberati on”.\n\nConchilia’s images of the combatants wretchedly dressed while marc hing with\nsticks instead of guns attracted the attention of the internati onal community on\nthe oppression of the Angolan people and the heroism of the rebels. Her journey\nthrough Angola resulted in the book Guerra di Po polo in Angola\, a photo\nreportage realised together with the MPLA partis ans (1969)\, and the documentary\non the struggle for liberation titled A Proposito dell’Angoloa (1971).\n\nOn June 3rd\, Augusta’s film will be scr eened (not in its entirety) to open a\ndiscussion to think about visual cu lture as wayward in its work to refuse\nsystems of oppression. Where the w ayward is understood as that which threatens\nstructures of oppression and power\, through one’s deviance from oppressive\nsystems and making a comm itment to living an emancipated futurity now. A\nProposito dell’Angoloa pr ovides an opportunity to untangle questions of\nwitnessing and responsibil ity.\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\nRodrigo Brum is a film producer\, programmer\, and s cholar. He is Associate\nProfessor of Practice in the Film Program at the American University in Cairo\n(AUC) and a Ph.D. candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (UvA)\,\nwhere his research focuses on the d evelopment of film education in Africa and\nLatin America during the Third Cinema movement.\n\nMaria do Carmo Piçarra is vice-coordinator of ICNOVA at Nova University of\nLisbon\, an assistant professor at FSCH- Nova Unive rsity of Lisbon\, and a film\ncurator. She was awarded the Hélio and Améli a Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation\nEndowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth\n(2023). Her research subjects focus on (post)colonial filmic representations\,\nfilm propaganda and cens orship in Portugal\, women in decolonization movements\nand militant uses of the image.\n\nEleri Connick (moderator) is a doctoral candidate at the University of\nAmsterdam’s School Cultural Analysis. Her doctoral project is titled: “The\nMaterial Witness: Practices of Palestinian Refusal in Amm an”. Drawing upon\ncurated workshops in Amman and in-depth ethnographic re search she explores how\nobjects that interlocuters bring to the workshops become disobedient in their\nrefusal of hegemony and what counts as a Pal estinian narrative. She was the\nDarat al Funun PhD Fellow in February to July 2023 and the Sijal Scholar in\nSummer 2026. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/reimagining-african-independence GEO:52.3685931;4.8896879 LOCATION:SPUI25 - Spui 25-27\, 1012 WX Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,books,community,discussion,documentary,film,sp ui X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In 1968, Augusta Conchilia, a journalist an d photographer, went to Angola to document the guerrilla warfare conducted by the liberation movement against the Portuguese occupation. Her documen tary film A Proposito dell’Angoloa (1971) drew the attention of the intern ational community on the oppression of the Angolan people. How can visual culture challenge oppressive power systems? How does it raise questions of witnessing and responsibility vis-à-vis African independence movements? < /p>

This event is part of Amsterdam School for Cultural An alysis’ Annual Conference, this year titled “Wayward Visuality: The Questi on of Violence and Liberation”.

Conchilia’s images of the combatants wretchedly dressed while marching with sticks instead of guns attracted the attention of the international community on the oppres sion of the Angolan people and the heroism of the rebels. Her journey thro ugh Angola resulted in the book Guerra di Popolo in Angola, a pho to reportage realised together with the MPLA partisans (1969), and the doc umentary on the struggle for liberation titled A Proposito dell’Angolo a (1971).

On June 3rd, Augusta’s film will be screened (not in its entirety) to open a discussion to think about visual culture as < /em>wayward in its work to refuse systems of oppression. Where the wayward is understood as that which threatens structures of oppression and power, through one’s deviance from oppressive systems and making a commitment to living an emancipated futurity now. A Proposito dell’Angoloa pro vides an opportunity to untangle questions of witnessing and responsibilit y.

Speakers

Rodrigo Brum is a film producer, programmer, and scholar. He is Associate P rofessor of Practice in the Film Program at the American University in Cai ro (AUC) and a Ph.D. candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analys is (UvA), where his research focuses on the development of film education in Africa and Latin America during the Third Cinema movement.

Maria do Carmo Piçarra is vice-coordinator of ICNOVA at Nova University of Lisbon, an assistant professor at FSCH- Nova University of Lisbon, and a film curator. She was awarded the Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/L uso-American Foundation Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at the Univers ity of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2023). Her research subjects focus on (pos t)colonial filmic representations, film propaganda and censorship in Portu gal, women in decolonization movements and militant uses of the image.

Eleri Connick (moderator) is a doctoral cand idate at the University of Amsterdam’s School Cultural Analysis. Her docto ral project is titled: “The Material Witness: Practices of Pa lestinian Refusal in Amman”. Drawing upon curated workshops in Amman and in-depth ethnographic research she explores how objects that interlocuters bring to the workshops become disobedient in their refusal o f hegemony and what counts as a Palestinian narrative. She was the Darat a l Funun PhD Fellow in February to July 2023 and the Sijal Scholar in Summe r 2026.

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