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Creating Pan-African Cinema

Pan-African filmmaking with Jennifer Lauren Martin

,The Lakeside Room
Still from a film portraying a young black woman looking towards the camera

What does filmmaking through Pan-Africanist frameworks look like? Work with materials from Stuart Hall’s Constituting an Archive and The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive to create a new project.

What does it look like to create a sense of archiving through film? How can cinema hold time? Who can we learn from to explore Pan-African techniques of filmmaking?

In this creative workshop with Jennifer Lauren Martin, you will explore methods used across Pan-African cinema to activate your own personal materials and create a new film project.

Drawing from Stuart Hall’s Constituting an Archive and materials from The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archives, participants will engage with the ‘living archive’ - an unfinished and open-ended process of archiving - to develop imaginative filmmaking processes that can be used across narrative, documentary, and artist moving image.

By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a collective framework and early stages of a film idea, ready to be put into action.

Tagged with: Talks & events Take part Cinema

Age guidance: 16+

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Jennifer Lauren Martin

Jennifer Lauren Martin is a London-based visual artist and writer/director. Their work has been exhibited at Primary (Nottingham), Turf Projects, and Kingsgate Workshops, with recent programmes at Tate Britain, Somerset House, Matt’s Gallery and LUX Moving Image. Lauren Martin’s films have screened internationally, including at Open City Documentary Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image, RIDM, and EMAF. They participated in residencies and fellowships at Triangle-Astérides, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and FLAMIN Fellowship. Lauren Martin is a Film London Lodestar Artist Filmmaker (2021) and is currently in residence at Somerset House Studios. They are a co-director of not/nowhere, a black and POC-led analogue film coop and a senior tutor at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University.  

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The Lakeside Room

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EC2Y 8DS

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