Media · Critical film library
Caribbean Cinema and Documentary
A film library to think from our shore
A curated catalog of films and documentaries relevant to Blackness, monumental whiteness and dispossession. Each work with its legal home and a reading through the group's categories: what no commercial database delivers.
Criteria
Selection criteria
The film library was conceived around the dialogue between the image and the categories we work with. The guiding criterion is conceptual pertinence: each work engages with (or tensions) Blackness as a regime of sensibility, Black lives as a philosophical archive, monumental whiteness and the porosity of dispossession. Three further conditions apply: verifiable legal standing, with access always declared as public, institutional or paid; sustainable sources, favoring public archives and platforms over fragile aggregators; and epistemic honesty, where availability is not confirmed we say "to be verified" instead of asserting what isn't true.
Greater Caribbean
The selection traces a constellation, not a nation: the Caribbean as an archipelagic and relational space in the sense of Édouard Glissant. It prioritizes the audiovisual canon of Afro-Caribbean and decolonial thought, the filmic counterpart to Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, Stuart Hall and the Black radical tradition, and follows Blackness across its diasporas: Havana, Fort-de-France, London, Port-au-Prince, New York. It moves from plantation memory to the present, and from the essay film to the militant archive.
Colombian Caribbean
Three criteria govern it. Geographic specificity: an emphasis on the Caribbean. A refusal to monopolize Blackness: not reducing the Black Caribbean to San Basilio de Palenque, but showing its heterogeneity: the Afro-Palenquero (Marímbula), the Anglophone-creole raizal (Keyla), the Indigenous and the popular within the Caribbean universe. Own sources: Retina Latina, RTVCPlay and Videosferas of Universidad del Magdalena, among others.
Catalog
Films and documentaries
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