Ithaca College

Reece Auguiste is a documentary practitioner and scholar whose research focuses on national cinemas, transnational screen cultures and documentary media practices. He is one of the prominent figures in the Black British Documentary Movement, whose films and theoretical writing have been highly influential internationally.

Auguiste’s fields of interest are film theory and criticism, aesthetics of the moving image, documentary screen practices, the Soviet and post-Soviet avant-garde, Iranian screen cultures, Chinese screen cultures, African Diaspora screen practices and their operations in transnational contexts.

Auguiste was a founding member of the critically acclaimed British-based Black Audio Film Collective, an project that critiqued race and nation in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s through postcolonial theory and hybrid documentary practices that combined documentary, experimental, and essay strategies. 

He is the director of the award-winning films Twilight City, and Mysteries of July. His current film Duty of the Hour explores the life and times of the American civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks.

His essays on screen aesthetics and documentary practices have appeared in Framework, Cineaction, Undercut, Journal of Media Practice, The British Avant-Garde Film 1926-1995, Questions of Third Cinema, Dark Eros, The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Media and The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective. 

He is the recipient of the Grand Prize at Melbourne International Film Festival; Josef Von Sternberg Award for most original film of the Mannheim International Film Festival, Best Film for Promotion of Intercultural Dialogue at the Mannheim International Film Festival, Golden Hugo Award for best documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival, and the International Documentary Association Award for exceptional creative achievement in nonfiction and television production, Los Angeles.

A retrospective of Mr. Auguiste's documentaries will be screened at FLEFF at Cinemapolis on Thursday April 12 at 6:45, and Sat April 4 at 12 noon and 3:50 p.m.  All screenings will feature moderated post-screening discussion.

He will also participate in several workshops, panels, and roundtables during FLEFF on campus:

"Race-ing Documentary Panel" with alums Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine and Park School faculty member Gossa Tsegaye at noon on Wed April 11 in Park 223

Collective and Collaborative Media Practices session at FLEFF Lab on Friday April 13 at 11 in Job 312; and

Cinemas on the Periphery Roundtable from 3-6 p.m.on Friday April 13 in Gannett  316.

For more information on FLEFF 2018 program, go to www.ithaca.edu/fleff

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