Aphrodiasporic aesthetics as a place to imagine and transform the world: black cinema and liberation

Abstract

This article analyzes the Afro-diasporic aesthetics as a place to imagine and transform the world, understanding the pedagogical function of black cinema, in light of African philosophies, and black epistemologies, as a space-time of liberation. On the path to achieving this goal, we will focus on the exercise of imagination (hooks, 2020), as a philosophical-political tool, as it produces meaning and directs action. Through the short films “Kbela”, by director Yasmin Thayná and “Sem Asas”, by Renata Martins, we will navigate the drifts of understanding African-Brazilian philosophies articulated with the Poetics of Movement. With this, we seek to understand how the debate about imagination can be a field of dispute and understanding of citizenship and confrontation of racism. Our intention is to provoke the debate on the imagination as a possibility of building an "another region of the world", assuming places of belonging and expansion of freedoms, as spaces of a dispute of senses and citizenship.