Black Cinema Collective is proud co-present MAKING MEN
A Special Program with New York African Film Festival at Film at Lincoln Center
Making Men film still, courtesy of Antoine Panier
Special Program for New York African Film Festival (NYAFF)
MAKING MEN
Co-presented by Black Cinema Collective (BCC)
Film at Lincoln Center – Francesca Beale Theater
Screening, followed by Dance + Conversation
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 1:30pm
MAKING MEN is also a touring live dance peformance work. This New York African Film Festival premiere will be followed by live dance/movement illustrations from Making Men.
There will be a post conversation with Dance Artist + Choreographer Harold George (Belgium/Sierra Leone) and Film Director Antoine Panier.
Moderated by BCC’s Founder and Program Curator, Berette S Macaulay.
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FILM SYNOPSES + TRAILER
MAKING MEN, 2019
Dir. Antoine Panier, Choreo. Harold George
Featured Dancers:
Tatenda Chabarwa, Tinashe Jeri, Peter Lenso, Carlton Zhanelo
Runtime: 24 mins | Language: English | Countries: Belgium, Zimbabwe
MAKING MEN delves into the mores of masculinity as four individuals navigate societal expectations on their path to manhood. As they grow through various stages of their lives, adopting clearly coded characteristics dictated by society, oppressive internal conflicts arise from the depths of their being, marking their journeys with uncertainties nearly impossible to define. Shot in the breathtaking landscape of Harare, Zimbabwe, with interiors filmed in Brussels, Belgium, Making Men features strong and rhythmical choreography by Harold George, with captivating cinematography by Antoine Panier, intensifying our emotional responses to the powerful movement of the dancers.
MAKING MEN performance reel
Created & directed by Harold George & Antoine Panier
Artistic advice Vincent Kuentz
Dance Harold George, Tinashe Jeri, Tatenda Chabarwa, Peter Lenso, Carlton Zhanelo
More info: W. duniadance.net ⚪️ Instagram. @duniadancetheatre ⚪️ Press: NYT
ABOUT ARTISTS + DUNIA DANCE THEATRE
Antoine Panier, L, Harold George, R, image courtesy of artists.
Harold George is a Sierra Leonean choreographer and Artistic director of Brussels-based Dunia Dance Theatre. His first steps were in Freetown, dancing and choreographing for local dance theatre groups. He moved to the UK and Belgium where he trained and worked as a dancer before heading to New York, dancing for the Graham Dance Ensemble and the Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, amongst other companies. George has worked as a choreographer in Belgium since 2001, where he founded Dunia Dance Theatre (DDT). The company is committed to a creative process that merges an African-inspired aesthetic with contemporary dance theatre, presenting works in which storytelling and elements of African mythology merge with modern and African dance techniques to create a contemporary dance experience. George works with the plastic arts (painting, sculpture...) and other new media like video, and constantly pushes the limits between artistic disciplines. The result speaks to the emotions through an aesthetic emerging from a diaspora experience. DDT is recognised by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
Antoine Panier is a Belgian born visual communication artist and filmmaker. His 15 years of experience and training as a contemporary dancer served in developing an original approach to filming dance. Panier learns every detail of choreography, tailoring his lens to each phrase for a perfectly honed relationship with the dancers and their movement. As a result, his first dance film, Making Men, has won over 20 awards internationally. Antoine has also served as a juror for the kNOwBOXdance film festival in Dallas, and the IN/MOTION Dance Film Festival in Chicago. IG: @antoinepanier
ABOUT PROGRAM CURATOR
Berette S Macaulay is an interdisciplinary artist and writer with creative and cultural practices in photography, mixed media, curating, and art organizing. She identifies as an Afro-Caribbean Creole woman of multi-im/migrant routes whose heritages guide her deep interests in cultural be/longing, and the performance and embodiments of trans*national identity. She is the founder of Black Cinema Collective (BCC) which celebrates African and Afro-Diasporic films, and is a project of the collaborative arts incubator, i•ma•gine | e•volve. She is currently serving as Guest Curator for the 2024 Jacob Lawrence Gallery Legacy Residency Program, its exhibition and supporting engagements.
PRESENTING PARTNERS + FILM SUPPORT
LOCATION
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
Francesca Beale Theater
144 West 65th Street
New York, NY 10023