Cinema presents memory as a collective commodity, and as a means to tapping into the strength of human existence. It provides a platform for engaging history and questioning the past from the standpoint of the present.
When a group of film enthusiasts one afternoon prepared for a screening at the Nigerian Film Corporation in Ikoyi, they accidentally came across a stash of forgotten film reels rotting away in a ‘ghost room'. The state of the reels, numbering hundreds, immediately brought up many questions: Could this encounter be a metaphor for how we engage memory as a people? Why have we never really consciously engaged with history? Is this negligence an oversight of a people or did we, as a nation, over the years, decide it unnecessary to engage the past?
Conference program
FRIDAY, 29 April 2016
10am Opening Remarks Nigerian Film Corporation
Goethe-Institut Nigeria/British Council
10:15am Introduction Didi Cheeka (Lagos Film Society)
10:45am Keynote address "The Spider and the Cellulloid Web"
Lisabona Rahman, lab labalaba (Indonesia/Italy)
11:15pm Film screening "The missing picture" (Rithy Panh, France/Cambodia, 2013)
1pm lunch break
2pm Panel discussion "Memories, History, and cinema"
Introductory remarks:
Afolabi Adesanya (Former MD, Nigerian Film Corporation)
Jacqueline Nsiah (independent film curator, Ghana)
Didi Cheeka (Lagos Film Society)
Tam Fiofori (Filmmaker, Photographer, Nigeria)
Ore Disu (Nsibidi Institute, Nigeria)
Moderation: Marc-André Schmachtel (Goethe-Institut Nigeria)
3:30pm tea break
3:45pm Keynote "Magic of Nigeria - On the cinema of Ola Balogun"
Nikolaus Perneczky (Filmkollektiv Frankurt/Germany)
4:30pm Film screenings with presentation "Black Goddess" (Ola Balogun, Nigeria/Brazil, 1978)
"Gods of Africa in Brazil" (Ola Balogun, Nigeria/Brazil, 1998)
SATURDAY, 30 April 2016
11am The BFI colonial film archives Dele Meiji (Royal African Society, United Kingdom)
12pm Film archives in theory and practice Lisabona Rahman (lab labalaba, Indonesia)
Nikolaus Perneczky (Filmkollektiv Frankfurt, Germany)
12:30pm lunch break
1:30pm Presentation of archive work Idrissou Mora-Kpai (Benin/Germany/USA)
2pm film screening "Indochine" (Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Benin/France, 2010)
3:15pm tea break
3:30pm Workshop "Time-travel 101: Working creatively with film archives" (for information see below) Ore Disu (Nsibidi-Institute)
Dele Meiji (RAS)
6:30pm Reception / VJing Sunara Begum (UK/Nigeria)
Thierno I. Dia
Images Francophones
Crédit image: DR
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