IN CINEMA

Friday, May 16th at 5:30PM

Presented with The New York African Film Festival

ARTE CONGO: ARTISTS JOURNEY ON THE CONGO COAST OF PANAMA

Arturo Lindsay, 2025, U.S., 68 min.

preceded by:

MAURICE PELLOSH: CAPTURING MEMORY

Emmanuèle Béthery, Eddy Mikolo, 2024, Congo, France, 52 min.

ARTURO LINDSAY

ARTE CONGO: ARTISTS JOURNEY ON THE CONGO COAST OF PANAMA – A documentary film that depicts a unique "insider's" view of a new Afro-centric Panamanian art movement that was born at a metaphoric crossroad in the village of Portobelo, Panama when Congo elder Virgilio "Yaneca" Esquina, photographer / author Sandra Eleta and artist / cultural investigator / educator Arturo Lindsay met. Along with a group of artists from Portobelo and the Spelman College Summer Art Colony, they established the painting workshop of Taller Portobelo.

MAURICE PELLOSH: CAPTURING MEMORY – Visual Memory of a joyful and bygone era, Maurice Bidilou Pellosh (1951-2023), photographer - portraitist, in Pointe-Noire (Congo Brazzaville), is looking for his former clients. Focus on youth, that of lovers, sappers and dancers, in love with freedom in this bubbling period of acquired independence. Studio Pellosh, an unmissable place, has seen the entire Pontenegrine society parade for 4 decades and offers an exceptional heritage.

$15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price