Cinema – Stream of Images/Imaginaries– Once Upon a Time in the Future

On Sunday, September 28, a screening of the fourth bloc of the film program Stream of Images/Imaginaries will take place. The event will take place from 3pm to 5pm at the Auditorium in the third floor.

Stream of Images/Imaginaries, the film program of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo highlights connections between Brazil, the Caribbean, and West Africa, bringing together the richness of Brazilian and French cultures in a program of films and related activities, with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Guimarães Rosa Institute, the French Embassy in Brazil, and the Institut français, as part of the France-Brazil Season. The program draws on the historical ties and strong transcontinental relationship and mutual influence between Brazil, the French Caribbean, and West African countries to establish dialogues between contemporary works from the African continent and historical works from the Cinémathèque Afrique collection, as well as films and videos by historical and contemporary artists from Brazil and the French Caribbean. The screenings will be accompanied by conversations with artists, lectures, and performances.

Each block of the program unfolds into a specific theme that will be explored throughout the Bienal, inviting the public to immerse themselves in its curatorial proposals. The block shown on September 28 is entitled Once Upon a Time in the Future, and it highlights works from Guadeloupe, Martinique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, and the UK, exploring futurity through a tapestry of sonic, visual, and philosophical inquiry. These films imagine and reclaim futures in the face of necropolitics and the ruptures of modernity. Includes the following films: Fouyé Zétwal [Plowing the Stars] (14’, Wally Fall and Anyès Noèl, 2020), Kaka Yo (28’, Luc Siassia and Sébastien Kamba, 1965), Kila & Mauna (19’, Ella Monstra, 2023) and The Last Angel of History (45’, John Akomfrah, 1996).

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Cinema – Stream of Images/Imaginaries – Once Upon a Time in the Future
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
September 28, 2025
Sunday, 3 pm
Auditorium
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
Av. Pedro Alvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, SP
free admission