Chicago Filmmakers (map) | Friday, November 15, 2024 | 7:00 PM

Join Chicago Filmmakers and HotHouse for a special screening of "Aimé Césaire - Un Homme Une Terre/ At the End of Daybreak” and “Négritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor,” as part of HotHouse's multipart program RE-IMAGINING TROPIQUES: An homage to AIMÉ AND SUZANNE CÉSAIRE.

Aimé Césaire - Un Homme Une Terre/ At the End of Daybreak

Dir. Sarah Maldoror | 1976 | 57 Min.

Aimé Césaire was a surrealist, essayist, activist and one of the founders of the négritude movement, a progressive artistic and political current that defended black culture, strongly tied to marxist and anti-colonial ideals. In Aimé Césaire, un homme une terre, Sarah Maldoror paints a portrait of her friend Aimé Césaire, who was a Martinican poet, politician, essayist, activist and one of the founders of the négritude movement, a progressive artistic and political current that defended black culture.

Négritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor

Dir. Manthia Diawara | 2015 | 59 Min.

This imagined dialogue between Léopold Sédar Senghor, one of the founding fathers of Négritude, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka was reconstructed almost entirely from archival materials. It probes the relevance of the concept of Négritude against the views of its many critics, not only to the decolonization and independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s but also to an understanding of the contemporary artistic and political scenes of nationalism, religious intolerance, multiculturalism, the exodus of Africans and other populations from the South, and xenophobic immigration policies in the West. 

With remarks by Tara Betts, author of three full-length poetry collections: Refuse to Disappear, Break the Habit, and Arc & Hue.

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