Cyborgs Film Programme

Pleased to announce Cinematically Posthuman, a film programme I've curated for Culture&'s Cyborgs Friday Late at the Wellcome Collection.

'From pre~robotic automata as imagined by the European modernist avant~garde, to the dawn of the computer age and the advent of Afrofuturism, a diverse range of moving~image artists explore the potentiality of the human body in relation to the changing technologies of the eras in which they were working.'

~ Afronauts (2014) by Nuotama Frances Bodomo: This beguiling monochrome short tracks the true story of Zambia Space Academy’s attempts to beat America to the moon.

~ Das Triadische Ballett (1970) by Oskar Schlemmer, reconstructed by Margaret Hasting: A reconstruction of Schlemmer’s 1922 Bauhaus ballet, exploring the modern world driven by two main currents: the mechanised automata and primordial impulses.

~ Seduction of a Cyborg (1994) by Lynn Hershman~Leeson: A poetic allegory about technology’s invasion of the body and the destruction of the immune system, witnessing the pollution of history that drowns us.

~ The Golden Chain (2016) by Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels: An experimental re~visiting of the Yoruba creation myth, as experienced by Yetunde, the only crew member on the Nigerian space station, Eko.

~ The Last Angel of History (1996) by Black Audio Film Collective: Using Afrofuturism as a metaphor for cultural displacement, this film presents new ways to understand the relationship between Black identity and the body.

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^{Cinematically Posthuman was part of Cyborgs, Culture&'s Friday Late in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection, an evening re~thinking perceived boundaries between human and non~human, and between races, genders or classes. Read more here.}