The African Film Institute is pleased to invite you to e-flux on Thursday, November 12 at 6pm for And the Dogs Were Silent, a program convened by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. The program features three short films: Sarah Maldoror’s Et les chiens se taisaient (And the Dogs Were Silent) (1978), Stan Lathan’s Statues Hardly Ever Smile (1971), and Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s  Les statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die)(1953). The screening will be followed by a conversation between Rhodes-Pitts and Christian Nyampeta.

This program continues Two Thousand Seasons, the 2026 programming of African Film Institute, driven by methods of collective study and collaborative action, and pointing to alternative sites where memory is held and where learning is made. Moving between the film image and practices beyond the screen, the programming samples transitional ways of recording histories and practicing commemoration, foregrounding inspiration as both a lesson and a tool for loosening the grip of manipulation characteristic of the world today.