Film screening: White out, Black in (2014)
When:
Friday, May 31, 2019
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT
Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: FREE
Contact:
Block Museum of Art
(847) 491-4000
Group: Block Museum of Art
Category: Fine Arts
Description:
Branco sai, preto fica (White Out, Black in)
(Adirley Queirós, 2014, Brazil, DCP, 90 min.)
The story of an act of racialized police brutality against attendees of a dance club near Brasília in 1986, an artist in a post-apocalyptic world, and a time-traveling detective who arrives in a modified shipping container on a mission to determine the causes of the inequity. These three elements make up Branco Sai, preto fica, a hybrid film using many genres and forms to interrogate the politics of Brazil. The tropes of dystopian science fiction are used to portray the real-life disparity between those who build the cities and those who get to live in them.
Introduced by César Pinto-Braga, Northwestern Professor of Brazilian, Lusophone African and Comparative Literature