Reasoned Catalogues: African Samples

Author

Audio-visual Arts Management Office from the Bogotá’sCultural Office

Publishing house

Bogotá District Film Library: Audio-visual Arts Management Office from the Bogotá’s Cultural Office – Idartes

Publication Date

2018

Reasoned Catalogues: African Samples

This title comes from another namesake sample developed in 2017 at the Bogotá District Film Library. The various texts that make up this title explore the Afro-descendant film industry and its meaning within the different festivals and art samples. Likewise, this title explores the cultural significance of representing African-related content on screens, the development of the African film industry in Portuguese-speaking countries, and Spike Lee’s influence as one of the most important exponents of the Black Cinema in the African-American film industry. A piece of work by Wilson Borja is also included as a graphical article.

Author

Audio-visual Arts Management Office from the Bogotá’sCultural Office

Publishing house

Bogotá District Film Library: Audio-visual Arts Management Office from the Bogotá’s Cultural Office – Idartes

Publication Date

2018

Digital version

Reasoned Catalogues: African Samples

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Manuel Zapata olivella
Artes Audiovisuales IDARTES
Ana María Arango Melo
Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada
Leopoldo Berdella de la Espriella
Jorge Orlando Melo
Javier Burgos Cantor
Miguel Rocha Vivas
2020

Tamalameque Fables

In this title of Libros al Viento (issue No. 140), Fables of Tamalameque (1990) by Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920-2004), the author devoted some time to cultivate this ancient and demanding literary genre for the very first and exclusive time.

Reasoned Catalogues: African Samples

La calle 10

Published in 1960, La Calle 10 is a novel by Manuel Zapata Olivella set in Bogotá. In this city, the author of this work lived when studying Medicine amidst the reigning atmosphere of the misery of those years that, in turn, would be the proper scenario for the explosion of violence after Jorge Eliecer Gaitán's death on April 9, 1948.

Machines of native peoples visions and spirits: Six essays on visual anthropology

This text highlights the conditions, practices, systems, and representations underlying a worldview that results from this intertwining.

Pütchi Biyá Uai: Precursors - Vol. 1

Pütchi Biyá Uai is a multilingual anthology of Colombian contemporary indigenous literature contemporary made up of poems and other brief literary works written in indigenous languages such as Wayuunaiki, Camëntsá, Quechua, Uwa, Uitoto Minika, and Spanish.

Conquest wonders and horrors

This work is an excellent way to bring back the memories of Colombia's conquest to make them your own. By reading this work, you will access documents from those days.

• Cocorobé: Songs and lullabies of the Colombian Pacific

Mothers from the Colombian Pacific will always, regardless the age, sing songs for their kids.

Palenque and Raizal Memories

This work is a testimony of our country's diversity in the form of Literature.

Juan Sábalo

We are pleased to introduce our title No. 129 of Libro al Viento: Juan Sábalo. Juan Sábalo tells the story of the country of the Zenú and Moor of Ayapel people.

Pütchi Biyá Uai side notes - Vol. 2

Chronicles of the Indies: New Granada (1536-1731)

The amazement of witnessing entire civilizations that resulted foreign to the European construct, together with the variety of plants and animals, and the outrageous amount of gold and precious stones complemented by the thrill and fear of facing death in every corner, must have been so sharp and deep for conquerors that they had to improvise their very own style and wording to give an account of everything they saw.

Proyecto Danzando Ananse

Resultado del proceso de una investigación artística que exploró las formas de sometimiento y cimarronaje contemporáneas, mediante el análisis, la interpretación y la (re)creación de relatos.

Andá, subí y ve

Convocatorias con enfoque diferencial dirigidas a la población y a comunidades negras, afrodescendientes y palenqueras residentes en Bogotá.

Artífices n1

Cartilla en la que se plantea una ruta metodológica para la ideación, formulación, implementación y sistematización de proyectos artísticos con enfoque comunitario.