TFBWL presents Black Girl (Film Screening & Discussion)

Throughout Spring 2025, The Free Black Women's Library is excited to host artist and scholar Afi Venessa and Emblematic Elusions, a film series that delves into the historical Black African films of the eponymous educational chapbook series!
Portraying how filmmakers redefine the Black woman’s form in the visual field from the wounded signifier to an embodied vessel for liberation, each edition presents a film and discussion, with a conclusive zine workshop.
A focus on the question of Eros in African cinema allows for an intuitive opening for larger discourses of the erotics of history, philosophy, (post)colonialism, migration and diaspora, socio-economic dynamics, visual culture and much more.

All are welcome to join us on Friday, March 28th for the first film in this series BLACK GIRL by Ousmane Sembene.