Cinéma Africain: Archiving, Resistance and Freedom BOOK LAUNCH (2025)

An anthology which highlights the richness and diversity of African and diasporic storytelling in film.

7 contributions which include essays, interviews, critical reflections, academic analyses, personal narratives and creative explorations.

Edited By – Nadia Denton (London) and Sandra Krampelhuber (Linz)

• ‘A estética é política– Aesthetics is Political’

Brazilian Cinematographer Lílis Soares explains the ‘complexities of the creative process of the Afrodiasporic woman as a cinematographer’.

• ‘Le Cinéma et Moi– Cinema and me’

Senegalese film giant Moussa Sene Absa chronicles how cinema saved his life referencing key personal and cinematic moments from his childhood to the present day.

• ‘In Conversation with Aïcha Chloé Boro: Crafting Freedom Through Intimate Cinema’

Estrella Sendra and Laura Feal interview the Franco-Burkinabe writer and director Aïcha Chloé Boro revealing her film and gender politics.

• ‘Archiving as a Radical Act’

London based moving image artist and researcher, Onyeka Igwe reflects on valuable time spent June Givanni’s Pan-African Cinema Archive and how this impacted her own creative practice and trajectory.

• ‘The T-shirt: Unchosen Histories in Cinematic Texts’

Creative producer and festival programmer Lesedi Oluko Moche demonstrates how a new generation of African diaspora female filmmakers are crafting African narratives from afar.

• ‘Disordered/Speculative Memory’

Director Simisolaoluwa Akande contemplates the erasure of queer Africans citing the process of making their documentary film, ‘The Archive: Queer Nigerians’.

• ‘Together We Create Our Futures: Creative Collaboration Between BEYOND NOLLYWOOD and the Surreal16Collective’

Curator Nadia Denton details her realization and development of the new wave Nigerian cinema platform BEYOND NOLLYWOOD alongside the meteoric rise of the Nigeria based Surreal16Collective

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This book is published on the occasion of the International Film festival Cinéma Africain!,

November 5 – 8, 2025 in Linz, Austria. www.cinema-africain.at

Published by:

JAAPO – für Partizipation von Women of Color, 4020 Linz, Austria

and

BEYOND FRAMES – Verein zur Förderungautonomer Kunst- und Kultur projekte 4020 Linz, Austria

This publication was made possible with the financial support of

LINZimPULS | Linz Kultur and Frauenbüro der Stadt Linz.