Experience four films selected by Brazilian curator and film scholar Janaína Oliveira, programmer of the 2021 Flaherty Film Seminar.

This special program from Oliveria’s ”Opacity” seminar features work by internationally renowned filmmakers Deanna Bowen (Canada) and Morgan Quaintance (United Kingdom), as well as Ibrahim Shaddad, Eltayeb Mahdi, and Suliman Elnour, collectively known as the Sudanese Film Group (SFG). Titles include Jamal (A Camel, SFG, 1981, 14 minutes), a short told from the point of view of a working camel; Jagdipartie (Hunting Party, SFG, 1964, 41 minutes), a film using Western tropes to tell the story of a hunt, filmed in Germany and digitally restored by the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video; Missing Time (Morgan Quaintance, 2020, 15 minutes) considers a relationship between amnesia, concealed histories, state secrets, and the constitution of the self; and The Paul Good Papers at Notasulga (Deanna Browne, 2012 23 minutes), connects histories of racial disparity between Canada and the US.

Image caption: Still from Ibrahim Shaddad’s Jamal (A Camel), courtesy of Arsenal Institute for Film and Video