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The PanAfrican Cinema Podcast10 In Conversation w/ Abiba CoulibalyThis month's podcast takes us back to autumn 2024, when programmer, teacher and curator, Abiba Coulibaly, popped into the archive for a long overdue chat with the archival team. Together we took a deep dive into Abiba’s influences, her curatorial practice and what drives the unique ethos of 'Atlas Cinema' and 'Brixton Community Cinema'. Find links to her amazing work and the various projects she is involved within the show notes. We are so grateful to have collaborated a number of times with Abiba and we have many of the programmes and commissioned essays from her events here at th...2025-04-2253 minThe PanAfrican Cinema Podcast09 In Conversation with Maya LouhichiThe JGPACA Podcast returns with another special conversation from the vaults. This time we bring you a sit down with Tunisian artist Maya Louhichi. We explored her work and relationship to her father, the renowned filmmaker and writer Taïeb Louhichi.Find out more and see her work at @maya.louhichi or mayalouhichi.comhttps://www.junegivannifilmarchive.org/@junegivannifilmarchive2025-03-1229 minThe PanAfrican Cinema Podcast08 La Bohemian Noir Q & A w/Amani NaphtaliThis podcast brings you all a fascinating and inspiring screening & Q and A between June Givanni and Amani Naphtali from earlier this Autumn. Please do seek out Amani's work and you can watch a film of his groundbreaking play 'Raggamuffin' at Brixton's Ritzy on December 12th hosted by JGPACA! Amani Naphtali is a trained dramatist, writer, director and filmmaker. He was a founder member of Double Edge Theatre Company. His plays include Songs of Songs and Ragamuffin. He also wrote and directed the film The Black Bohemians, and the short film Circles of Fire.https://w...2024-12-1053 minThe PanAfrican Cinema Podcast07 Twilight City w/Reece AuguisteOn Friday the 13th September we were honoured to show the seminal film 'Twilight City' as part of our JGPACA film club. The Director, - and key member of the Black Audio Film Collective - Reece Auguiste sat down that afternoon with our archival team for a wide ranging and insightful conversation about Reeces' process, his artistic influences and the impetus behind the making of the film.https://www.junegivannifilmarchive.org/@junegivannifilmarchive2024-10-1153 minThe PanAfrican Cinema Podcast06 Nicolás Guillén Landrián w/ Jessica Gordon-Burroughs and Nikolaus Perneczky.This episode is a very special exploration of the life and films of Nicolás Guillén Landrián and is the third in our collaborative JGPACA series entitled African Film Heritage and Restitution. We were delighted to work on such vital work with Dr Jessica Gordon-Burroughs (Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Visual Culture at University of Edinburgh) and Nikolaus Pernezcky (a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary in London). If you enjoy, please do check out our earlier Restitution Episodes too. Written and produced by Jessica Gordon-Burroughs and Nikolaus Pernezcky. Mix and sound design by b...2024-09-131h 00The PanAfrican Cinema Podcast05 In Conversation w/ Ngozi OnwurahIn July, the JGPACA team welcomed to the archive the seminal filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah to explore what items and artefacts from her illustrious career were in our holdings. We were delighted to present to her a variety of film stills, interviews, reviews, publicity and photographs —- not to mention copies of her films dating back to her debut work Coffee Coloured Children in 1988. After her visit, the archive team sat down in our screening room for a conversation about her wider practice and its ongoing cultural importance within pan african film discourse. Also, we got the chance to di...2024-07-3041 min
I Hope This Message Finds You WellI Hope This Message Finds You Well, Clémentine Deliss (S3/Ep5)In the fifth episode of the season we talked to Dr. Clémentine Deliss who works across the borders of contemporary art, critical anthropology, curatorial practice, and publishing. We talked about her curatorial beginnings and significant projects in her professional trajectory as an “artist to artist” curator. We also discussed her take on the exhibition that foregrounds and reflects a “conceptual intimacy”, where non-didactic learning, visual thinking and juxtapositions take center stage.
Dr. Clémentine Deliss is Global Humanities Professor in History of Art, University of Cambridge, and Associate Curator at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, where she runs the “Metabolic Museum-Unive...2024-05-101h 18The PanAfrican Cinema Podcast04 Pan African Film Archives Beyond Africa w/ Boukary Sawadogo and Imruh BakariFor today’s episode we bring you a very special conversation between filmmaker, academic and JGPACA director Imruh Bakari and Dr Boukary Sawadogo, associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Black Studies at The City College of New York. Held in association with the Global Cultures Institute at King’s College London, this event took a deep dive into Boukary’s practice and the complexities of teaching students about Pan African Culture. https://www.junegivannifilmarchive.org/@junegivannifilmarchive2024-05-081h 01The PanAfrican Cinema Podcast03 Rastafarianism in Babylon w/ Dr. Aleema Gray and Carmen Andall WoodroofeToday's podcast is a wide and enriching conversation we had at the archive following a screening of D Elmina Davis' seminal documentary about women in Rastafari from 1988 called Omega Rising. This film was shown as part of a double bill with Nicholas Chauderge's, Born-in-a Babylon, which documents the enduring Rastafari communities in north and east London at the turn of the millennium. The discussion begins with a conversation between academics Carmen Andall-Woodroofe and Dr. Aleema Gray in response to these works. However, we were also very lucky to have in attendance a family who were featured in omega rising...2024-04-0346 min
The PanAfrican Cinema Podcast02. Riots and Rumours of Riots w/Imruh BakariToday’s episode takes us back to November 2023, when we hosted a screening of Imruh Bakari’s Film, Riots and Rumours of Riots at the May Day Rooms in central London. We were lucky enough to hold a discussion with Imruh afterwards about the process of making the film and also hear a selection of his poetry! Enjoy!https://www.junegivannifilmarchive.org/@junegivannifilmarchive2024-02-2850 min
The PanAfrican Cinema Podcast01. Zines and Archiving Beyond the Mainstream w/Fiona Quadri and June GivanniThis spotlight episode stems from a Zine Making workshop which was the second part of an event series called ‘Publishing and Archiving beyond the mainstream’. These sessions were put on alongside our Friends at the May Day Rooms, and invited young people to creatively respond to the archive, learn more about Junes work in co-founding the Black Film Bulletin, and also the influence of its American counterpart the Black Film review. https://www.junegivannifilmarchive.org/@junegivannifilmarchive2024-02-1353 min
Raven RowFESPACO and the Archiving of African Cinema Panel Discussion | PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema ArchiveFESPACO and the Archiving of African Cinema
With June Givanni (chair), Mohamed Challouf, Jihan El-Tahri, Aboubakar Sanogo and Keith Shiri
Since its establishment in 1969, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso has been considered one of the most important festivals of the African, and later the African diaspora’s, filmic imagination. Chaired by June Givanni, this panel charts and explores FESPACO’s histories and legacies.2023-06-062h 05Raven RowBetween Accessibility and Art Criticism Panel Discussion | PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema ArchiveBetween Accessibility and Art Criticism: African/Diasporic Film Culture Today
With Awa Konaté (chair), Anthony Badu, Liz Chege, Abiba Coulibaly and Rōgan Graham
Increasingly the division between cinematic forms and materials produced for art galleries have blurred and created new forms of creative collaborations and questionings of the screen-based image. How does this context speak to legacies of the pioneers of African cinema and the challenges and opportunities for contemporary African film makers? The panel aims to explore the role and relevance of writing about and curating African/Diasporic films and to...2023-05-302h 00Raven RowSisterhood Panel Discussion | PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema ArchiveSisterhood
With Suzanne Scafe (chair), Wangui wa Goro, Sindamani Bridglal, Ruhi Hamid and Haja Fanta
This panel explores Black women’s filmmaking as an important voice in the development of Black independent film in the UK, the African diaspora and on the African continent in the 1980s. Black female directors, producers and programmers share their experiences of overcoming obstacles to produce their films and bring Black women’s experiences into the cinematic frame.
Please note, at 1.01.15 there is a section of 40 seconds with low audio quality during a mi...2023-05-182h 02Raven RowThird Cinema in the Era of Channel 4 Panel Discussion | PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema ArchiveThird Cinema in the Era of Channel 4
With Imruh Bakari (chair), Gaston Kaboré, Hudda Khaireh, Rod Stoneman and Parminder Vir
The first ten years of Channel 4 (1982–92) fundamentally transformed British film and television, and also witnessed the emergence of a Black British independent cinema. This intergenerational panel brought together key individuals who were part of that moment, with creative professionals who have encountered and reframed the complex legacies of Black British independent media production.
This event was part of PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive at Raven Row. 2023-05-152h 18
Front RowJune Givanni on the PanAfrican cinema archive, Gwen John at Pallant House Gallery reviewedIn 2021, June Givanni was presented with the British Independent Film Awards Special Jury Prize for what was described as “an extraordinary, selfless and lifelong contribution to documenting a pivotal period of film history” with her extensive archive focussed on African and African diaspora cinema. The archive is now the subject of a new exhibition - PerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive. June joins Front Row to discuss turning her personal passion into a public resource.Gwen John: the modern painter of interiors and solitary women, was once in the shadow of the men in her life - br...2023-05-1142 minRaven RowBlack on Europe Panel Discussion | PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema ArchiveBlack on Europe
With Juliet Alexander (chair), Felix de Rooy (Zoom), Cecile Emeke, Colin Prescod and Onyekachi Wambu
Black on Europe was a landmark BBC television series produced to signal the establishment of the European single market on 1 January 1993. In 1991, Black British filmmakers Colin Prescod and Onyekachi Wambu documented the lived experiences of Black people and communities living within the EU across six countries: the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the UK. Thirty years on, this panel united the original filmmakers with filmmakers from the UK and Europe, exploring the meaning o...2023-05-031h 33
ShadeShade Shorts on Film with June GivanniPerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, now showing at Raven Row London.Today my guest is the film curator and archivist, June Givanni.June's new exhibition, PerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is showing at Raven Row in London until 4 June 2023.The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) holds a unique collection of artefacts and archival material, which has at its core the interest of PanAfrican cinema and its relationship with Black British cinema and culture. The exhibition reveals histories and ideas in African and African diasporic film. June has been co...2023-05-0237 min
"What's Good?" W/ Charlie TaylorEp.225 - June Givanni, Thatcher & 10 FootIn a week where:Dominic Raab resigns as Deputy PM. It's been 30 years since the murder of Stephen Lawrence. India passes China to become most populous country.Joe Biden announces 2024 presidential run. Harry Belafonte dies aged 96.In Politics: (7:40) Ever since Thatcher came into government, every subsequent government - even the Labour ones - have taken from her foundations. It's frankly depressing that we constantly accept it.In Film: (24:00) Raven Row has a new exhibition going down until June and if you're like me and know close to nothing about Pan-African cinema, then June Givanni's 10,000 piece arc...2023-04-271h 16
The PanAfrican Cinema PodcastAfrican film heritage & restitution (2) – Footage Lost and FoundEpisode 2 of the Pan African Cinema Podcast is a panel conversation on African film heritage featuring four eminent African filmmakers, Jihan El-Tahri (Egypt), Ali Essafi (Morocco), Nii-Kwate Owoo (Ghana) and Jean-Marie Téno (Cameroon). We talked about Africa's displaced, contested and silenced film archives, the recuperation of archival images by means of found footage filmmaking, and the case for moving image restitution. This episode is produced by June Givanni, Feven Haile and Nikolaus Perneczky with support from the Freelands Foundation.https://www.junegivannifilmarchive.org/@junegivannifilmarchive2023-03-201h 54
The PanAfrican Cinema PodcastAfrican film heritage & restitution (1) – Introduction feat. Jean-Marie TénoWelcome to the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Podcast. In the first five episodes, we will be asking filmmakers, archivists and cultural activists what the recently renewed call for restitution and reparations means for African film heritage, what forms the restitution of moving images might take, and how to confront persistent obstacles. Our guest in this episode is Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Téno.With extracts from You Hide Me (Nii-Kwate Owoo, Ghana/UK, 1970), The God of Kom (Fon Quinter, Cameroon, 2017), Afrique, je te plumerai / Africa, I Will Fleece You (Jean-Marie Téno, Cameroon/France/Germany, 1992) and Les Bicots-nègre...2022-05-2148 min
Blacklisted ConversationsTBB Talks ... BFI Unbound Second ComingAs part of UNBOUND: Visions Of The Black Feminine season at BFI, THINK Cinematic's Jan Asante hosted a special #BCAFilmFest (Black Cultural Archives Film Festival) screening of BAFTA-nominated British film Second Coming, starring Idris Elba and Nadine Marshall and written by the phenomenal debbie tucker green.Joining the conversation is The British Blacklist founder Akua Gyamfi, and Poet Be Manzini of Caramel Film Club. Take a listen as they unpack the significance of director debbie tucker green's seminal film as a rare and exceptional offering in the underrepresented canon of contemporary Black and British drama a...2017-07-051h 08