'Nuhmibeeuhn' A film screening by Kav Hambira

406 14th Street,Oakland CA 94612

29 June, 2022

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The Black Studies Collaboratory at UC Berkeley presents 'NUH-MI-BEE-UHN,' a short documentary screening by BSC grantee Kavena Hambira. Join us between 6 pm-9 pm at the Joyce Gordon Gallery on Wednesday, 29th June 2022. Film Synopsis: Nuhmibeeuhn In September 2017, at a luncheon with African leaders during the U.N. General Assembly, the president of the United States repeatedly used the term ‘Nambia’ to describe a non-existent country. Less than five months later, he would refer to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador, as "sh**hole" nations. Although dismissed as another one of his innocuous gaffes, these microaggressions were interpreted as another form of erasure and perpetuated racial hierarchies, particularly by those most affected. Feeling profoundly disconnected by these events and exhausted by the political climate in the US, Berkeley-based filmmaker Kavena returns to his country of origin armed with both frustration and a camera. His journey takes him to the rural north, the Namib Desert, and the city of Windhoek, his hometown. Here he hopes to rediscover the collective and individual histories that color his cultural identity as a Nuh-mi-bi-uhn. Learn more. Video (preview and trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbiEgeAvpck Artist Bio: With his work grounded in documentary filmmaking, Kavena ‘Kav’ Hambira seeks to connect nodes of history and unearth caveats suppressed by dominant narratives. While his earlier work documented families impacted by police violence in the United States, his current work focuses on the twentieth century’s first genocide—the Herero and Nama Genocide, carried out by Germany in 1905 in his family’s native Namibia. As a descendant of the victims of the genocide in German South West Africa and as a beneficiary of East German solidarity, Hambira’s film weaves together personal/ collective histories that define Namibia’s history and present. Learn more. Instagram: @kavilier Facebook: Kavena Hambira.