One of the most influential video-essays of the 1990s, this cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction, estrangement, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement, cultural alienation, and otherness. Program 1 (67.94 min), Wednesday, March 4, 2020īlack Audio Film Collective (UK), The Last Angel of History, 1995 (45min) Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies, this series brings leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism, and how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Shown in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond the World’s End at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, this film series is part of a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series.

How are moving-image artists envisioning radical futures grounded in the traditions of the oppressed? How might we envisage worlds-to-come foregrounding social justice and multispecies flourishing? How can we escape the resounding catastrophism of the dystopian present in giving form to creatively imagining the not-yet, as a radical source of rupture thrown into the future but rebounding in a subsequently transformed present? This film series assembles a diverse group of visionary practitioners whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Beyond the World’s End: Screening Program

Beyond The World's End by Beachcro