The Poetics of Afro-Caribbean Ritual Filmmaking: Building a Multisensorial Theory of the Flesh
Presented by the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
Presented by the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
Elena Guzman
Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Indiana University
Thursday, April 13, 2023; 4:00pm
Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Elena Herminia Guzman is an Afro-Boricua filmmaker, educator, and scholar. Her ethnographic manuscript titled “Chimera Geographies: Black Feminist Borderland Performances” focuses on the way Black women and non-binary people throughout the African diaspora use ritual performance in African diaspora religion as a means to forge Black feminist borderlands through spiritual crossings. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University and is an IU Assistant Professor in the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology. As a part of her work in film, Elena is co-director of the film Bronx Lives (2014), which explores homelessness for Latinx and African Americans in New York, co-founder of the feminist filmmaking collective Ethnocine and producer of the podcast Bad Feminists Making Films.