{"id":8335,"date":"2020-02-17T21:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=8335"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T03:33:30","slug":"feb-20-avant-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2020\/02\/17\/feb-20-avant-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 20 – Avant-Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curator Greg de Cuir Jr. and artist Edgar Arceneaux in person<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

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Baloji, still from Zombies, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Sudu Connexion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conceived by Belgrade-based curator Greg de Cuir Jr. as an \u201cintervention into the status quo,\u201d Avant-Noir brings together contemporary films and videos by international artists of African descent to showcase visual representations of Black cultures in their many complexities. Part of a much larger project of iterative screenings and exhibitions, this special edition spotlights works from the last two years. Baloji\u2019s stunning\u00a0Zombies<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(2019) is both an Afrofuturist music video and satire of digital consumer culture. Ayo Akingbade\u2019s poetic\u00a0A is for Artist\u00a0<\/em><\/i>(2018) charts the artist’s growing political consciousness. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich\u2019s\u00a0A Quality of Light<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(2019) is an Afrosurrealist portrait of the artist\u2019s composer grandmother. Edgar Arceneaux\u2019s\u00a0Until, Until, Until\u2026<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(2017\u201318) probes the history of African American representation on stage and screen through the bifocal lens of Broadway actor Ben Vereen and vaudeville star Bert Williams, America\u2019s first mainstream Black entertainer.<\/p>\n

2017\u201319, multiple directors, multiple countries, multiple formats, ca 90 minutes followed by discussion.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

Greg de Cuir Jr.\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>is an independent curator, writer, and translator who lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Curatorial projects include the\u00a0<\/span>Black Light\u00a0<\/em><\/i>retrospective at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (2019);\u00a0<\/span>Kevin Jerome Everson<\/em><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>The Abstract Ideal\u00a0<\/em><\/i>at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia (2019);\u00a0<\/span>21st Century \u017dilnik<\/em><\/i>\u00a0at Close-Up Film Centre and LUX in London; the 64th annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in Hamilton, New York (with Kevin Jerome Everson, 2018);\u00a0<\/span>Affinities<\/em><\/i>, or\u00a0<\/span>The Weight of Cinema<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(with Kevin Jerome Everson) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2018), among many others. De Cuir is managing editor of the journal\u00a0<\/span>NECSUS<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(Amsterdam University Press), editor of the\u00a0<\/span>Eastern European Screen Cultures<\/em><\/i>\u00a0book series (Amsterdam University Press), and member of the editorial board of the\u00a0<\/span>Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image<\/em><\/i>\u00a0book series (Palgrave Macmillan). His essays have been published in\u00a0<\/span>Cineaste<\/em><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, Millennium Film Journal, ARTMargins<\/em><\/i>, and\u00a0<\/span>Politika<\/em><\/i>, among others. Since 2008 he has worked as selector for Alternative Film\/Video Festival in Belgrade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curator Greg de Cuir Jr. and artist Edgar Arceneaux in person Conceived by Belgrade-based curator Greg de Cuir Jr. as an \u201cintervention into the status quo,\u201d Avant-Noir brings together contemporary films and videos by international artists of African descent to showcase visual representations of Black cultures in their many complexities. Part of a much larger […]<\/p>\n

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