Guest Post by Avery Hayden Pierce, IU ’18. BlackKkKlansman screens Nov 2 at 8PM and Nov 4 at 2PM Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. 7th St. Bloomington, Indiana 47405 I’ve considered Spike Lee to be retired for many years now. Oldboy (2013) began the descent and Chi-Raq (2015) marked the end of his creative ability. Even though I found… Read more »
This Wednesday October 24 at 6PM in the IULMIA Screening Room (Wells 048): the Black Film Center/Archive, the University Archives, the Neal-Marshall Black Cultural Center Library and IU Libraries Moving Image Archive will stage (RE)FOCUS: Black America 1968/2018. This interactive experience includes a screening of HERITAGE OF THE NEGRO 30 min. (1965), narrated by Ossie Davis… Read more »
Guest Post by Essence London, Indiana Review Editor-in-Chief. September 20, 2018 the BFC/A held a Mystery Screening in partnership with #DirectedbyWomen and IU Libraries Moving Image Archive. The content of the screening was not announced beforehand. In the essay below guest contributor Essence London reflects on the event and her complex relationship to the histories… Read more »
Jerome Dent, PhD Candidate at the University of Rochester visited the BFC/A as one of our inaugural visiting research fellows. Dent documented his research and the connections he found across texts in a series of Facebook posts which are compiled and featured here as a research journal. Day 1! A bit of Julien, and some… Read more »
The BFC/A explores race, film, and campus life in collaboration with Indiana University Archives, IU Libraries Moving Image Archive, and Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library. Our event on Oct. 24 starts at 6 pm with conversation and artifacts from IU’s 1968 Focus: Black America program then moving on to screen two films on race and… Read more »
The Associate Director/Senior Archivist serves as a leading spokesperson for the Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A) in its official business with Media School administration, the IU Cinema, IU Libraries, IU Foundation, current and prospective donors, grant-making agencies and foundations, related cultural heritage institutions, and other entities within and outside Indiana University. The position also stewards the… Read more »
Writer and Ph.D. Candidate (Yale University) Nicholas Forster visited the BFC/A for research on a biography about actor-director-playwright Bill Gunn, most recognized for directing the experimental horror movie “Ganja and Hess” in 1973. In this guest blog post, he returns to a question that pursued him as he conducted his research in the “Mary Perry… Read more »
Filmmaker and curator Amir George visited the Black Film Center/Archive for a research residency over the first week in April 2018. In this guest blog post, he shares highlights of this first visit and plans for his second. The vastness of the archive can be slightly overwhelming. Throughout my days spent I watched numerous films… Read more »