ZWARTE IBIS PREMIERES AT MELKWEG AMSTERDAM

𝘈 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺.

On both 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, at 𝟭𝟵:𝟬𝟬 𝗵𝗿𝘀, 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 and 𝗜𝗳 𝗜 𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗜 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, in collaboration with 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰, 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆, and 𝗥𝗲/𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲, present the 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲 of 𝗭𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗯𝗶𝘀 at 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗸𝘄𝗲𝗴 𝗖𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗮! Dedicated to showcasing the film and the voices of those involved in its making, the evening includes a 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆.

DETAILS:

Date: Friday January 12 and Saturday January 13, 2024

Time: 19:00 hrs (doors open at 18h30 with DJ Shug La Sheedah!)

Venue: Melkweg Cinema (address details here)

Title: 𝗭𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗯𝗶𝘀

Creator: Black Speaks Back

Country: The Netherlands

Year: 2024

Length: 18 min

Language: Dutch

Subtitles: English

GRAB YOUR TICKETS NOW!

Tickets for the Friday program: www.melkweg.nl/nl/agenda/zwart-ibis-12-01-2024/

Tickets for Saturday program: www.melkweg.nl/en/agenda/zwart-ibis-13-01-2024/

ABOUT THE FILM

Zwarte Ibis portrays a young Black woman’s quest for intimacy in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the political and the personal, the past and the present, become ever blurrier. The short film is an afro-surrealistic reverie, poetically re-imagining our contemporary conceptions of relationships with the self and with imagined communities through a questioning of historically and culturally imposed views on Black people’s intimate lives in the diaspora.

Behind the film

The film is a commission of If I Can’t Dance within the frame of their Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies biennial programme (2022-23), and has been developed in partnership with CBK Zuidoost and the 2023 BijlmAIR residency programme. The project is supported by the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.