EMERGENT BLACK SCHOOL CINEMAS – DIFFERENCE AND (AFRO)FABULATION IN THE CINEMA AND EDUCATION PROGRAM OF CAMPINAS

Abstract

This article analyzes the experiences of the Cinema and Education Program of the municipal school network of Campinas, São Paulo, with an emphasis on the categories created for the Kino/Student Film Showcases and on school-based cinematographic practices as vectors of anti-racist and decolonial education. Drawing on a dialogue between Gilles Deleuze, Nego Bispo, and Tavia Nyong’o, among other authors, concepts such as confluence, transfluence, and afrofabulation are mobilized to understand the movement-images produced in schools. Through an immanent analysis of film curation, literature review, and study of the kino-categories of the showcases, the article argues that these experiences constitute emancipatory pedagogical practices and a reinvention of sensibilities and affections in school life. However, they still face challenges and contradictions in affirming the emergence of Black school cinemas yet to come.