SHORT FILM PROGRAM: AFRO FUTURE(S) FORUM

Afronauts

Nuotama Frances Bodomo, USA 2014, 14 min. English, digital file

WOMXN, The Nightmare Of You Know Who

Eden Tinto Collins & Adrien Gystere Peskine, France 2018, 4 min. English with English subtitles, digital file

Swimming In Your Skin Again

Terence Nance, USA 2015, 26 Min. English, digital file

Akoota

Dilman Dila, Uganda 2019, 20 min. Acholi with English subtitles, digital file

Egúngún (Masquerade)

Olive Nwosu, Nigeria 2021, UK, 15 min. English, Yoruba with English subtitles, digital file

Followed by the panel discussion Ancient Visions of the Future with Kantarama Gahigiri, Maisha Maene, and other guests, moderated by Adyam Tesfamariam

Five short films offering a deep immersion into contemporary Afrofuturism and Magical Realism. In Afronauts, a film based on true events, the Zambian Space Academy thousands of miles away tries to overtake the United States in the race to land on the moon. WOMXN, THE NIGHTMARE OF YOU KNOWWHO, an inspired musical collage that mixes Afrofuturism, allusions to black culture, space and Z-series, follows a superheroine who is summoned from space by a dolphin to put an end to police violence. Swimming In Your Skin Again is an intensely musical film, about the spiritual moorings of life, embracing the heat, spirit and landscape of southern Florida. The sci-fi film Akoota tells of a young girl's struggle against genetically engineered swarms of mosquitoes in her village. Egúngún (Masquerade) is a meditation on home, memory and identity and on the many versions of ourselves that haunt us.