The Brickbat Revue’s AfroFuturism Film Festival— curated by Gary Dauphin— is coming to a finis this Saturday, March 30.
It’s been nearly four weeks of filmic themes, each of which have cinematically peeled away the layers of white-wash that have been overlaid in Hollywood’s versions of the future.

Throughout the weekends of March, movie-goers watched adventures in sonic fiction with legendary Sun Ra, took in an alternative black history with Ivan Dixon and explored black biopolitics in Ganga and Hess.

Ganga and Hess, the penultimate filmic offering, is a Dracula that explored the trappings of being black and not part of the unwashed masses.

The aesthetic of Ganga and Hess invokes Oscar Micheaux. What appeared to be stagey acting became cleverly claustrophobic as the story wore on, lending the film a pre-post-modern feel.

Ganja... perceives black people through the lens of socioeconomic class.
Upper-class black vampires sucking on the blood of working class black people in order to get into some random party by some random white guy.

Of course, not one of them made it to the party, and we never learn that random white guy’s identity. I mean—do we really need to learn it?

The last installment of the AfroFuturism Film Festival will show the documentary The Last Angel of History (1996) by John Akomfrah and Pumzi (2000) by Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu.
We hope to see you there!

AfroFuturism’s final March film will air this Saturday, March 30 at 10:45 a.m. at the Gladys Waddingham Lecture Hall, Inglewood Public Library, 101 W Manchester Blvd. Ingle- wood, 90301 . For more info, please e-mail