DeColonial Cinema

Wachale Cineteca is a cinematheque that cultivates a practice, through critical filmmaking and critical spectatorship, that unsettles the hegemonic gaze. Our monthly screenings, film festivals, guest lectures, rēsearch, and published texts propose alternative forms of storytelling, other(ized) methods of looking (e.g., hooks’s “oppositional gaze”), archival rēvisioning, and epistemic refuge. Additionally, we seek to establish a framework of distribution and exhibition that is not bound to Hollywood.

We are headquartered in Los Angeles and sometimes hit the road to other communities.

Membership to Wachale Cineteca is free. Fill out the form below if you are interested in becoming a member.