05.05.2025Seminar: Atlantique between Trans- and Paranational Cinema

In the seminar, we will pick up elements of Mati Diop’s film Atlantique (and, potentially, the earlier short Atlantiques (2009), a predecessor to the feature film), to identify elements of the paranational fabric in and behind the film.

In 2020, Diop recalls: “I started to imagine my film 10 years ago, before what people now call ‘the migration crisis’. Personally, I don’t believe there is a migration crisis, but a moral and political crisis. As the daughter of an immigrant, migration is part of my history and identity and so I see it as a complex and existential reality rather than a subject.”

The film will also help us to better understand the complicated relations between nation, transnationality, and the paranational.

The seminar is open to the public.

Reading: Suzanne Christine Enzerink: “Black Atlantic Currents: Mati Diop’s Atlantique and the Field of Transnational American Studies,” in: Journal of Transnational American Studies 12.1 (2021), pp. 53–81.

https://paranational-cinema.org/agenda/atlantiques-between-trans-and-paranational-cinema/