Screening and conversation with The Otolith Group, moderated by Annett Busch

As part of the exhibition Listening All Night to the Rain by John Akomfrah, the film MASCON: A Massive Concentration of Black Interscalar Energy (2024) is presented for the first time in Spain. The work is produced by The Otolith Group, a collective formed by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, whose practice combines film, theory, and critical inquiry to explore history, memory, and the African diaspora. The film investigates the works of Senegalese filmmakers Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Diop Mambety, exploring the gestures and geographies of Sahelian cinema and evoking what Stephen Henderson defines as “Mascon”: a Black creative energy capable of transforming imagination. After the screening, Sagar and Eshun will discuss their career, influences, and the creative process behind the work with research-curator, editor, writer and translator Annett Busch.

This is an activity by Organismo | Art in Critical Ecologies in collaboration with the public program for John Akomfrah's exhibition Listening to the Rain All Night. The collaboration with The Otolith Collective arose from the case study Pyroecologies in Organismo Year One.