Amanda Madumere (b. Enugu, Nigeria) works across film, research and cultural programming as an artist, filmmaker, researcher and curator.
Her practice engages moving image and archival materials to examine memory, power and visual politics—particularly how African bodies, women’s bodies and other bodies at the fringes have been rendered through historical and contemporary cinematic languages. Amanda is the co-founder and co-curator of The Screen in Transit, a nomadic film collective that uses screenings, archival material and public conversation as tools for collective reckoning with politicised memories across Africa.
The collective foregrounds independent filmmakers and alternative modes of cinematic organising. Amanda’s experimental essay film A Body in Metaphor interrogates the objectification of the female body in African cinema, drawing on archival footage, voice-over analysis and critic-based intervention.
She was a curator and researcher in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, where she worked with photographic and film archives and deepened her engagement with post-archive and post-memory methodologies. This research was further shaped through workshops with Didi Cheeka and Onyeka Igwe, which foregrounded ethical approaches to archival absence, silence and refusal.
Her work moves between analysis and making, research and exhibition, writing and film, treating the moving image not as a static source but as a site of ongoing negotiation for meaning.
She is currently the Programmes Manager at 1952 Africa, where she leads curatorial programming, research initiatives and institutional partnerships. Her work there focuses on artist development, experimental education models and long-term cultural infrastructure. Amanda lives and works from Lagos, Nigeria.
