Tate Modern Film

Tigritudes Day One

5 June 2024 at 18.30–20.30

Randa Maroufi, Bab Sebta 2019, video still. Courtesy the artist

Join us for a special screening of Pan-African artist films

The UK Tigritudes programme expands on a project initiated by filmmakers Dyana Gaye and Valérie Osouf in 2020. The series offers a subjective, chronological anthology of Pan-African cinema, through 68 film screenings. Together, the works included in the season span decades, running from 1956 - the year of Sudan’s independence - to today. Organised chronologically, the screenings take place across venues in London, including at BFI Southbank and the Garden Cinema. Each tells the story of a moment in time, creating resonances between works, and allowing viewers to identify geopolitical or formal connections.

This first screening includes works by filmmakers Jyoti Mistry; Shirley Bruno; Hamedine Kane; Randa Maroufi; Franck Mukunday & Tétshim and Moïse Togo, as well as a conversation with Randa Maroufi and Ayesha Hameed.

Curated with filmmakers Valerie Osouf and Dyana Gaye, the Tigritudes series continues at Tate on Friday 7 June 2024.

Programme

Introduction by Dyana Gaye and Valérie Osouf

Shirley Bruno, An excavation of us 2017. Video, colour, sound, 11 mins

Jyoti Mistry, Loving in Between 2023. Video, colour, sound, 19 mins

Randa Maroufi, Bab Sebta 2019. Video, colour, sound, 19 min

Hamedine Kane, Habiter le Monde 2016. Video, colour, sound, 15 mins

Frank Mukunday & Tétshim, Machini 2019. Video, colour, sound, 2019, 9 mins

Moïse Togo, Gwacoulou 2019. Video, colour, sound, 16 mins

Conversation between Randa Maroufi and Ayesha Hameed and audience Q&A

Dyana Gaye

Straddling two cultures, French and Senegalese, Dyana Gaye chose cinema as a medium after having studied music dance for many years. A multi-hyphenated actress, screenwriter, programmer and producer, her main activity remains filmmaking. In France, she worked for several years as a programmer for ACID (Agency for Independent Cinema for its Distribution).

Valérie Osouf

Long based in Dakar, Senegal, documentary filmmaker Valérie Osouf initially devoted her research to African film distribution in West Africa. She had successive careers as a radio presenter, reporter, freelance journalist, and as a filmmaker and artist. In recent years, she has been a member of the School of Mutants collective, a research platform co-founded with Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro.

Ayesha Hameed

Ayesha Hameed explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figures of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Her Afrofuturist approach combines performance, sound essays, videos, and lectures. Hameed examines the mnemonic power of these media – their capacity to transform the body into a body that remembers. The motifs of water, borders, and displacement, recurrent in her work, offer a reflection on migration stories and materialities, and, more broadly, on the relations between human beings and what they imagine as nature.

Randa Maroufi

Randa Maroufi focuses on staging bodies in public or intimate spaces, a practice often imbued with political undertones that claim ambiguity to challenge the status of images and the boundaries of representation.

The artist is a graduate of the National Institute of Fine Arts, Tetouan, Morocco (2010) and the School of Fine Arts, Angers, France (2013). She also earned a diploma from Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France (2015). Her recent group exhibitions include National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA (2024); the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium (2023); Biennale de Lyon, France (2022); Museo de Reina Sofía, Spain (2021); New Museum, NY (2020); MA Museum, Quebec (2019); Biennale de Dakar, Senegal (2018); Sharjah Biennial, Lebanon (2017); International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2016); African Photography Meeting, Bamako, Mali (2015); the Marrakech Biennale, Morocco (2014).

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