L’École du soir Cinéma #4: INFINITY minus Infinity (2019)

A screening event of The Otolith Group's film INFINITY minus Infinity (2019), which draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant, the black feminist poetics of the Brazilian philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva, and the racial formation of geology theorised by British geographer Kathryn Yusoff amongst others in order to envision a black feminist cosmos animated by the principles of mathematical nihilism. The phrase “hostile environment” invokes the covert policy of targeting migrants enacted by the UK Conservative government since 2014. It stands for the criminalization of the Afro-Caribbean women and men that migrated to Britain in the 1950s to help reconstruct its industrial infrastructure after the war.

The event also featured a performance response by Ashanti Harris and Sabrina Henry with their collaborators Mele Broomes, Plantainchipps, Saoirse Amira Anis, Marios Ento-Engkolo.