Wachale Cineteca

Anti-Colonial Cinema

Housed at the Latinx Research Center at UC Berkeley, 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, research, and published texts propose alternative forms of storytelling, other(ized) methods of looking (e.g., hooks’s “oppositional gaze”), archival revisioning, and epistemic refuge. Additionally, we seek to establish a framework of distribution and exhibition that is unbound to Hollywood.