The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Alfreda's Cinema present Netherworld: The Anteaesthetic Experiments of Black Women in New York City on September 26, 2024. In this unique, one night only program, Rizvana Bradley (Associate Professor of Film and Media, UC Berkeley) offers a defining philosophy on Black art's vexed emergence from a netherworld. Alfreda's Cinema, thinking with and alongside Bradley, understands Black women's film and art as anteaesthetic practices fashioned from the negative underside of the aesthetic. This program, which demonstrates Bradley's foundational arguments, also resonates with the way Blackness is compelled to dwell in the obscurity of this netherworld, and features works by Zion Estrada, Corinne Spencer, Ina Archer, and Andreea Kindryd. The film screenings will be followed by readings and a discussion.
Featured Films:
Hunger (2023) dir. Corrine Spencer
2,340 Miles From 1880 (2023) dirs. Zion Estrada, Mitch McEwen
Black Black Moonlight (2024) dir. Ina Archer
Tijintu Pakani: Sunrise Awakening (1975) dir. Andreea Kindryd