Please join us in celebrating Black History Month by attending a film screening of Nana Dijo; Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness. The screening will be followed by a Q & A and spoken word with Bocafloja Quilomboarte. Complete details are below. We look forward to seeing you there!

Location: Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th Floor of Rackham
Date: February 21, 2017

7:00p.m. (Welcome and Intro. by Bocafloja Quilomboarte)
7:30p.m. (film begins)
8:10p.m. (film ends; Q & A begins)
9:00p.m. (Q&A ends)
9:00-9:15p.m. (spoken word performance conclusion)

About the film and Bocafloja:

• Bocafloja is a Multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, author, and founder of the Quilomboarte collective. Decoloniality, Body Politics, African Diaspora in Latin America and Intersectionality are fundamental topics addressed in his body of work. Bocafloja has been featured in newspapers, magazines and media outlets globally.

• Nana Dijo is a cartography of the Black experience through a collection of narratives in first person. Nana Dijo is an urgent historical registry filmed in Mexico, Honduras, Uruguay, Argentina and the United States, which opens a crucial platform of analysis about race relations/politics by transgressing beyond the parameters of hegemonic discourses imposed by culturalist agendas. The narrative sewed into Nana Dijo grows out of the body of the oppressed trespassing geo-political borders. Nana Dijo pursues processes of empowerment while being critical towards exoticization within hegemonic cultural industries. Nana Dijo is the complexity in the colonized psyche; Our elders vernacular manifestation. Nana Dijo; Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness is the first documentary collaborative project directed by Bocafloja in collaboration with Cambiowashere.