The Black Film Center/Archive is excited to welcome back to Indiana University Renée Baker, who is scheduled to be present for a post-screening Q&A of the 1930 film Borderline on Wednesday April 24th at 7:00 pm. (Click HERE for tickets.) Baker, who recently visited Indiana University in 2017 to premier her score for a different film, The… Read more »
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April’s Awesomeness at the BFC/A!
Nina Lorez Collins, daughter of the late Kathleen Collins, whose masterwork Losing Ground was the great rediscovered film of 2015, will read selections from a new book of her mother’s writing, Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary. The conversation with Collins, BFC/A Director Terri Francis and Professor of English Vivian Halloran precedes a screening of Losing Ground (1982), which had… Read more »
Additions to IU Image Collections Online from the Gugler and Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Collections
In December 2017, IUB Libraries and the BFC/A launched the Josef Gugler African and Middle Eastern Film Collection through Indiana University’s Image Collections Online (ICO) (see previous story). Since then, our staff has scanned an additional 1,315 posters, photographs, lobby cards, and handbills from the collection and added them to the site for a total… Read more »
See Burial of Kojo April 10, 7PM Wells 048
This ARRAY screening will take place in the IU Libraries Screening Room, Wells 048 at 7PM. Director, Samuel “Blitz” Bazawule is scheduled to be present for a post screening discussion. You don’t want to miss this exciting and exclusive event! FREE TIX HERE: https://libraries.indiana.edu/burial-kojo The Burial of Kojo is an official selection of the 2019 Pan… Read more »
Conversation with Nina Lorez Collins; April 3, 6PM, Wells 048
Nina Lorez Collins, daughter of the late Kathleen Collins, whose masterwork LOSING GROUND (1982) was the great rediscovered film of 2015, will read selections from a new book of her mother’s writing entitled NOTES FROM A BLACK WOMAN’S DIARY (2019). The reading will take place April 3, 6PM, at the IU Libraries Screening Room, Wells… Read more »
Together Un/Known
Together Un/Known Archival Ethics and the Case of Acquisition 6130 Anonymous home movie collections, while not entirely rare, present unique challenges for archives. In the case of Acquisition 6130 at the Academy Film Archive, archivists discovered what appeared to be home movies of a gay interracial couple living in Southern California in the early 1970s…. Read more »
Nontheatrical Ecologies: The Films of Esther Figueroa
The Black Film Center/Archive is proud to welcome Esther Figueroa, PhD, for a screening of her work Monday, March 25 at 6PM, hosted by the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive. Dr. Figueroa is an independent Jamaican filmmaker with over 30 years of experience in political documentary cinema. A self-taught activist filmmaker, her work focuses on… Read more »
Muenz Tweets Highlights from “Saving the Race”
Kristen Muenz, an archivist and recent graduate of the MLS program at Indiana University, captured key points from Dr. Melanie Chambliss’ presentation, “Saving the Race: Black Archives, Black Liberation, and the Shaping of African American History, which marked the final installment of the BFC/A’s Fall 2018 lecture and conversation series Before Representation. ________________________________________________________________ Highlights from “Saving… Read more »
Michael Schultz’s Sonic “Archives”
Former BFC/A Student Assistant Elijah Pouges is a writer, rapper and music producer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is often thinking about simulacrum and the interactions between sonics and image. You can find his music at brzraps.com. In this essay Pouges examines what it means to hear as well as see Michael Schultz’s films. The films… Read more »
The Extratextual(s) of The Last Dragon
Former BFC/A Student Assistant Elijah Pouges is now a writer, rapper and music producer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is often thinking about simulacrum and the interactions between sonics and image. You can find his music at brzraps.com. In this essay Pouges examines the many worlds contained extra-textually Michael Schultz’s films. The films discussed in this post are… Read more »