Oct 20th 2022

Block Cinema presents Sudanese Film Group Shorts

@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208

Opening Thursday, October 20th, from 7PM - 9PM

The Sudanese Film Group formed in April 1989 with a mission statement that pledged “to uphold the enlightening role of cinema against the armies of darkness.” Comprised of cinéastes frustrated with the limitations of Sudanese state-sponsored filmmaking, they imagined a new space for creative filmmaking, film exhibition, and education. Less than three months later, a coup d’état brought a military junta to power in Sudan, ending the SFG’s dream for more than a decade. The films in this program, painstakingly restored by Berlin’s Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, reveal the bold ingenuity and allegorical richness of a cinema nearly lost to history.

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