Black Queer Peripheries: Black Fruit meets Poeler Luft

Film screening & panel discussion with Lamin Leroy Gibba and Massiamy Diaby
Moderated by Jenaba Samura (ZfL)

To conclude the first day of the workshop Afropean Peripheries: Mapping Temporal and Spatial Liminalities, we will screen an episode from Lamin Leroy Gibba’s series Black Fruit (2024) and Massiamy Diaby’s short film Poeler Luft (2024). Each work explores, in its own visual language, how Black queer life in Germany claims space and time and thereby moves between visibility and omission, center and periphery.

Following the screening, directors Lamin Leroy Gibba and Massiamy Diaby will join us for a panel discussion on the making of their work. They will speak to the aesthetics of flourishing and expansiveness as counter-narratives to linear stories of resistance and belonging, and to how filmic storytelling can render visible the liminalities at the heart of Black European existence.

The event is part of the ERC-funded project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations.