IN CINEMA

A.I. AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE
Screening: Friday, March 28th 7PM
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price

Post-screening discussion with director Manthia Diaware moderated by Rico Speight

Co-presented with Third World Newsreel

A.I. AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE

Manthia Diawara, 2023, 110 mins

Granted rare access to Ndeup, a spiritual healing ceremony practiced by Lebou peoples in Senegal, filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara–with input from a cadre of scientists and academics–wonders what connections, if any, can be made between the possession ritual and Western logic. A.I. African Intelligence imagines generative ways of utilizing and thinking about “machine learning,” which Diawara fears might otherwise elide specific cultural practices like Ndeup.

Scholar, writer and filmmaker MANTHIA DIAWARA is the author of We Won't Budge, Black-American Cinema, African Cinema and the film director of Edouard Glissant, Rouch in Reverse, An Opera of the World, Negritude among many others. Manthia received his education in France and later traveled to the United States for his graduate studies. He has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Pennsylvania and is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema at New York University

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