Following its premiere at this year’s Durban International Film Festival and a screening at San Francisco’s 3rd i South Asian Film Festival, Jordache A. Ellapen will present cane/cain at the BFC/A tonight at 7:30. The post-screening discussion will be moderated by LaMonda Horton-Stallings from the Gender Studies department. Join us beforehand at 6:30. Pick up… Read more »
Black Film Center & Archive
A Glimpse into the BFC/A's FESPACO Poster Collection, Part 1 – Women Filmmakers
Hello there! My name is Sarah Mayersohn and I am interning at the BFC/A as part of my coursework for my master’s in library science at the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University-Bloomington. One of my primary duties is processing African movie posters into the archive’s FESPACO collection, and I’ve noticed that there… Read more »
THIS WEEKEND AT THE BFC/A: Documentaries on Sara Gómez & Ousmane Sembene
Stop by the Black Film Center/Archive this weekend for two exciting screenings. On Friday, October, 14 at 2:00 pm, we’re wrapping up our Hispanic Heritage Month program with the 2005 documentary on Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez, Where is Sara Gómez. Watch an extract of it HERE. On Sunday,… Read more »
Hispanic Heritage Month at the BFC/A: Focus on Sara Gómez
Today marks the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month, and the BFC/A is honoring Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez. Gomez made numerous short documentaries and newsreels for ICAIC, the Cuban national film institute, but is primarily known for her feature film De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another). Here… Read more »
Save the Date – November 12: Symposium on the L.A. Rebellion
This fall the UCLA Film & Television Archive will celebrate the filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion in the retrospective L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema. All the details have not been released yet, but mark your calendars for the one-day symposium that will take place on November 12 at UCLA. BFC/A director Michael Martin… Read more »
Podcast Alert: BFC/A Archivist featured on "A Place for Film"
Earlier this month Mary Huelsbeck, the BFC/A’s Archivist, was a guest on the IU Cinema’s podcast “A Place for Film.” Take a listen as she and host Andy Hunsucker chat about the BFC/A’s beginnings, the collection and 30th anniversary events. Click HERE to listen to the podcast.
Spotlight: Black Martial Arts Films
We recently added the 2009 hit blaxploitation parody Black Dynamite to our collection. One of the trailers on the DVD was for another movie starring Michael Jai White, Blood and Bone. If you live in the New York area, you can check out Blood and Bone at the Museum of the Moving Image this Sunday,… Read more »
Black Camera Spring 2011: Beyond Normative: Sexuality and Eroticism in Black Film, Cinema, and Video
The Spring 2011 edition of Black Camera has arrived and is an especially important version which the Black Film Center/Archive hopes can reach film scholars as well as professors seeking to incorporate these readings into their curriculum. This issue featured Guest Editor Dr. LaMonda Horton Stallings, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and African American and… Read more »
Brown Bag Talk: Nzingha Kendall
The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies presents: A Brown Bag Talk by Nzingha Kendall “En)visioning Black Female Subjectivity: A close reading of Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND & Sara Gomez’s DE CIERTA MANERA” Nzingha Kendall will provide an illuminating analysis of these important films – don’t miss it! Wednesday, February… Read more »
5th Annual Archives & Special Collections Month at Indiana University
Sustainability of our Cultural Heritage: Preserving and Making Accessible Society’s Digital Records Throughout October, the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries will celebrate their fifth annual “Archives and Special Collections Month,” as a means of highlighting the many ways that archives and special collections enrich our lives. This year’s theme focuses on IU’s College of Arts and… Read more »