Saturday, July 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Black Film Assembly presents *The Congo Recalibration Cycle: ZAMANI* – Films from Yole!Africa with Petna Ndaliko Katondolo. With support from Slamdance and Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine. (*Suggested donation for Yole!Africa: $10-20. Nobody turned away due to lack of funds.*) ~ The Kongo Recalibration Cycle is an evolving body of films in which Kongo is not presented as a site of crisis, but as a living epistemology that recalibrates our relationship to memory, technology, ecology, and the imagination. A night of films from Yole!Africa founder, filmmaker and mwalimu Petna Ndaliko Katondolo along with work from Yole!Africa filmmakers from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo exploring matriarchal return. through choices in the making of the films and their approaches to storytelling. Within the Soulfull-Soil Cinema form - Yole!Africa’s school and mode of filmmaking channelled by Mzee Petna, films follow the logic of Ejo-Lobi storytelling where the future of the past is braided into the past of the future, weaving rhythms across dimensions. Where images are not cut but braided into the logic, weaving in the Murago way, with soulful-soil cinema principles. The program includes special advance screenings of films from Goma speaking from a matriarchal perspective and legacy, through filmmaking choices and approaches in storytelling. In addition, there will be previews of an additional upcoming film from Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, as well as films from the Rhythmic Dream Architextures course taught by Matazi Weathers Rhythmic Dream Architextures as part of Yole’s new Cinema Celluloid Department. After the screening, join Petna Ndaliko Katondolo and Matazi Weathers, in a community circle in the Yole!Africa form moderated by Jheanelle Brown for conversation and reflection on the program’s films and Yole!Africa’s work. Program presented by *Black Film Assembly* - a living mycelium responsive to the needs of Black filmmakers, cultural workers, storytelling practitioners rooted in Los Angeles and blooming across diasporic geographies. Financial support generously provided by Slamdance, Peter Baxter, and Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine.