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L.A. REBELLION

From the myriad of cinematic movements of the 20th century, the L.A. Rebellion - also known as Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers - is certainly one of the most revolutionary currents. Between the 60s and 80s, a generation of filmmakers, associated with UCLA - University of California, created a new Black Cinema, independent from the stereotypical Hollywood conventions and attentive to the real african-american lived experiences. At the time of the Civil Rights movement in the USA, these filmmakers’ contributions challenged the white hegemony in the cinema industry, while expanding the aesthetic and social reach of cinema to circumstances overlooked until that time.

In the most comprehensive European retrospective of the movement to date, LEFFEST celebrates the irreverent qualities of the L.A. Rebellion’s filmography. Directors such as Charles Burnett, Billy Woodberry, Ben Caldwell, Julie Dash and Haile Gerima - special guests of this year’s festival - compose a landscape of dozens of filmmakers, with scenes as remarkable as the painfully stilted dance of a married couple in Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1978), the visionary intergenerational tour-de-force in Dash’s Daughters of the Dust (1991) and the mythical singular-cut confluence of past and present in Gerima’s Sankofa (1993).

Featuring screenings by fourteen distinct L.A. Rebellion directors, unprecedented in Portugal, LEFFEST 2022 will hold further debates with the invited filmmakers and a retrospective-exhibition about this movement’s generation. With the artistic perspective and work by the emblematic Ben Caldwell, the exhibition’s vernissage will be held on the 13th of November, at MU.SA in Sintra.

Full program here.

©Joana Linda

Cineasta, Billy Woodberry é um dos fundadores do movimento coletivo L.A. Rebellion (Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers), uma geração de jovens cineastas afro-americanos que procuraram a construção de um novo cinema negro. Ficou conhecido por ter realizado a longa-metragem de ficção Bless Their Little Hearts (1984), que foi premiada no Festival Internacional de Cinema de Berlim. Billy Woodberry é também professor de Cinema na Escola de Artes da Califórnia (CalArts) e ainda na UCLA.

O ciclo Visualidades Negras, com curadoria e moderação de Filipa Lowndes Vicente (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), propõe várias reflexões sobre a relação entre visualidade e negritude, abordando problemáticas que passam pela justiça racial, política e social.

Com o apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento.

Descontos
Estudantes 20% 
Membros de associações 20%*
Preço de grupo: Mínimo de 10 pax – 20%*
*Estes descontos são válidos apenas na compra de bilhetes individuais e vendidos presencialmente no CCB.