Regards Noirs

General admission

Merci! Thank you! Contact: festivalregardsnoirs@gmail.com.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:382px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">We will close all links on August 1st. You can e-transfer 10$ to @RegardsNoirs on Paypal to have an entry if the screening is not sold out.<p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">🪞BLACK WOMEN FILMMAKERS IN THE U.K. / RÉALISATRICES FEMMES NOIRES AU ROYAUME-UNI🪞<p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">This screening featuring Black women filmmakers in the U.K. is open to all. <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for ticket scanning, food (somali food by Repas Hooyo with halal and vegan options), drinks and merch (tote bags for 15$ and stickers for 1$ - cash or virtual payment via PayPal). <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Location of la lumière collective: inside the building, take the elevator to the 5th floor and go towards the door #506.<p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Programme<p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">   SAMRAA directed by Dita Hashi (2021, 14 minutes, 59 seconds) SAMRAA is the grammatically singular, feminine form of the root ‘asmar’, the Arabic word for a contested shade of brown. The term is both a descriptor and a racial designation burdened with historical and social meanings. SAMRAA lives on in unsought nicknames, catcalls, intimacies and absences. It marks the borders of brownness/Blackness, displacing the latter and rendering it palatable.  Often used as a blunt instrument of political correctness, SAMRAA is the feminine figure distanced from the negative associations which cling to Blackness across the Arab world. SAMRAA is an experimental moving image work which explores this term as a site of both enclosure and endearment. Dita Hashi slices up Arabic pop music videos, live performances and archival footage across space and time, producing a new dissonant soundtrack made up of linguistic reiterations and derivatives.  SAMRAA evokes this contaminated kinship through sonic manifestations and pelagic yearnings. It defamiliarizes and recontextualizes the asmar’s loose ubiquity. Engaging with the provocations of scholar-critic Hortense Spillers and the poetry of Muhammad al-Fayturi and partly shot on the coast of the Arabian Gulf by essayist, poet, and the film’s creative adviser Momtaza Mehri, SAMRAA elaborates these chromatics of domination. It restages this space of sanitization and disavowal, one which catches the Black woman subject in its tangled net.   Dreaming Rivers directed by Martina Attille (1988, 30 minutes, 7 seconds): Dreaming Rivers is a film written and directed by Martina Attille for Sankofa Film &amp; Video. In this allegorical work, actor Corinne Skinner Carter performs the role of Ms T, a black Caribbean woman in transition. Her children Daughter (Angela Wynter), Sister (Nimmy March) and Sonny (Roderick Hart) sit at her bedside and attend to the unspoken intimacies of history and transnational belonging.   The Season of Burning Things directed by Asmaa Jama and Gouled Abdishakour Ahmed (2021, 9 minutes): The Season of Burning Things, is a moving-image collaboration between the two artists. Unfolding from the creators’ perspectives in the Somali diaspora, the piece takes the lead from East African mythos and Islamic imagery to explore mythmaking, Blackness; a ‘generation of ghosts’ and the transient spirit. Asmaa Jama is a Bristol-based Somali poet and visual artist. They are the co-founder of Dhaqan Collective, a feminist art collective, and were recently shortlisted for the Brunel African Poetry Prize and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Gouled Abdishakour Ahmed is an Addis Ababa-based Somali visual artist, stylist, costume designer and writer. Their ongoing self portrait series One Day These Names Will Be Ours explores the gaps that exist within formal language in the understanding of gender expressions outside of the gender binary. Jama and Ahmed previously collaborated on Before We Disappear, an interactive film exploring hypervisibility/invisibility and surveillance.   No Archive Can Restore You directed by Onyeka Igwe (2020, 5 minutes, 54 seconds): The former Nigerian Film Unit building was one of the first self-directed outposts of the British visual propaganda engine, the Colonial Film Unit, stands empty on Ikoyi Road, Lagos, in the shadow of today’s Nigerian Film Corporation building. The rooms are full of dust, cobwebs, stopped clocks, and rusty and rotting celluloid film cans. Amongst these cans, a long-lost classic of Nigerian filmmaking, Shehu Umar (1976), was found in 2015. The films housed in this building are hard to see because of their condition, but also perhaps because people do not want to see them. They reveal a colonial residue that is echoed in walls of the building itself. Taking its title from the 2018 Juliette Singh book, No Archive Can Restore You depicts the spatial configuration of this colonial archive, which lies just out of view, in the heart of the Lagosian cityscape. Despite its invisibility, it contains purulent images that we cannot, will not, or choose not to see. The film imagines ‘lost’ films from the archive in distinctive soundscapes, juxtaposed with images of the abandoned interior and exteriors of the building. This is an exploration into the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial moving images continue to generate.   Except This Time Nothing Returns From the Ashes directed by Asmaa Jama and Gouled Abdishakour Ahmed (2023, 16 minutes, 18 seconds): ‘Except This Time Nothing Returns From the Ashes’ (2023) is a collaborative experimental moving image piece made between Asmaa Jama and Gouled Ahmed. Shot in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia the film follows five ghostly, glitchy presences haunting a city. Inspired by a situated East African reading of the African photography studios of the past, the work explores the themes of self-portraiture, archiving and memory to consider who is excluded from institutionalized national narratives.  Combining poetry, experimental sound, animation, and collected familial photographs the film opens a portal to remembering those who would otherwise be forgotten, those systematically rendered peripheral. Using a magical realist lens, the film explores photography’s potential to build &amp; corrupt canons. We harness the power of self-portraiture as an act of resisting these erasures. <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">INFO<p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Most films with dialogues have subtitles in English. The screening is followed by a collective discussion with Dita Hashi in attendance.<p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">COVID: We strongly advise to test negative before attending our events and to stay home if you present any symptoms. We will have N95 masks if needed. <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">💌 Some profits from the festival are going to Care For Gaza and Sudan Solidarity Collective.<p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:border-box;width:828.188px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:normal;cursor:text;padding:0px;counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;text-align:left;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">We are not selling tickets at the door. Contact us at <a href="mailto:festivalregardsnoirs@gmail.com">festivalregardsnoirs@gmail.com</a> for any questions. See you soon! :)

Regards Noirs

Black women filmmakers in the U.K.

7080 Rue Alexandra #506

General admission

$10