July 23 Sunset Kino Final Screening | Guest Curated by Scholar Rinaldo Walcott

Join us on July 23 at 9 PM for the conclusion of our 2026 Sunset Kino program
guest curated by distinguished scholar Rinaldo Walcott. Spanning
multiple historical moments and geographies, Walcott engages the theme
of “In Ruins” through a program that brings together artists whose works
examine technology and ruined landscapes alongside meditations on
memory, history, and displacement.

Program Details

Films by John Akomfrah, Dana Inkster, Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Cauleen Smith

Programmed by Rinaldo Walcott

Dana Inkster, Welcome to Africville, 1999 (15 mins)

This
irreverent hybrid work takes history, memory, the archive and sexuality
seriously. Set in the impending ruins of Africville its mix of archival
footage and fictionalized performance packs a powerful punch about what
ruins can both conceal and reveal.

John Akomfrah, The Last Angel of History, 1996 (45 mins)

This
film refuses genre. Nonetheless it narrates how genius arises from the
supposed ruins of transatlantic slavery to provide the us a world of
Black Atlantic musical forms . These musical forms bend sound, invent
new sounds, and in the process reshape the human and engage in unending
invention.

Cauleen Smith, H-E-L-L-O, 2019 (11min)

An
homage to New Orleans this work references popular film like a musical
sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind as it also limns the
musical traditions to the city. In a post-Katrina New Orlean Smith mixes
pass and present.

Tuan Andrew Nguyễn, The Boat People, 2020 (20 min)

This
film blends the past and the future and what might emerge from the
ruins of a past not yet behind us. The sea becomes a reservoir of the
ruin of a human civilization whose history can be reconstructed from its
detritus for an as yet unnamed future.