Group hosts 2-day symposium on Cinema, History and Memory

Cinema provides a platform for engaging history and questioning the past from the standpoint of the present.

To this end, Lagos Film Society (LFS), supported by Goethe-Institut Nigeria and British Council will be hosting a 2-Day symposium titled 'Reclaiming History, Unveiling Memory'.

Come April 29th and 30th, several local and international experts will discuss the significance of history and film making at the Nigerian Film Corporation.

In more ways than one, Nigeria as a country has fallen short in engaging with history.

To this end, the event seeks to fill this vacuum and shine a flashlight into the mystery that shrouds a collective past, and to trigger the culture of revisiting memory.

The event which kicks off at 10am will see local and international experts share the archival experiences with the interested audience via panels, presentations, film screenings, and workshops.

Iconic Nigerian filmmaker, Dr Ola Balogun, will screen and discuss some of his early films, and there will also be a special session curated by Nsibidi Institute and the Royal African Society.

Also at the event will be the Indonesian film collective Lab Labalaba who will present their approach to film archives in Jakarta.

London-based German film curator, Nikolaus Perneczky (Filmkollektiv Frankfurt) will talk about working with African film archives in a European context, while Beninois filmmaker, Idrissou Mora-Kpai, will present his film “Indochine”.