Africa in the Americas: Film Series

How do African cultural traditions find expression in the Americas?

Award-winning films in a series co-presented by IUPUI Committee on African and African-American Studies and the Indianapolis Museum of Art address this question.

Each film will be shown in DeBoest Lecture Hall of the IMA, 4000 Michigan Road, is free of charge and open to the public.

Films to be shown are:

Rize, 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 15. This documentary chronicles a group of dancers who “clown” and “krump,” two forms of dance that evolved on the streets of South Central Los Angeles. The film will be introduced at IMA by Larry Barry, one of the dancers featured in the film.

African Blood, 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 22. This documentary gives voice to the people of the Costa Chica region in the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero, Mexico. They carry a little-known legacy: the Afro-Mestizo, or Afro-Mexican culture. Through testimonies, reflections and powerful cultural expressions, we witness their struggle to strengthen and claim their own identity and their African roots. In Spanish with English subtitles.

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