Visiting Curator Greg de Cuir Jr. is in Bloomington for a week-long research residency at the Black Film Center/Archive and a series of programs concluding with his Show & Tell Workshop at the Auxiliary Library Facility on Friday, Jan. 26. Throughout the week, de Cuir will share notes and photos from his residency with our… Read more »
Black Film Center & Archive
BFC/A’s Josef Gugler Collection at Image Collections Online
Earlier this fall, IU Libraries and the BFC/A quietly launched the Josef Gugler African and Middle Eastern Film Collection on Image Collections Online (ICO). As of this posting, access-quality jpegs of approximately 785 posters and photographs (more than one-third of the visual items in the collection) are viewable at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/images/splash.htm?scope=bfca/VAD9191. Josef Gugler is a professor… Read more »
Free Screening: THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD, 6/22, 7pm
On Thursday, June 22, the Black Film Center/Archive presents a free screening of The House on Coco Road. The screening will be held at 7pm at the IU Libraries Screening Room in Wells Library. Reservations are required and can be made online at http://iub.libcal.com/event/3363205. Directed by Damani Baker, The House on Coco Road is a compelling… Read more »
BLACK CAMERA Vol. 8, No. 2 Now Available
The latest issue of Black Camera: An International Film Journal is now available in print and online from the Indiana University Press. The current issue features two Close-Up sections: The first, #BlackLivesMatter and Media, is edited by Charles “Chip” P. Linscott and features essays by Linscott, Michele Prettyman Beverly, and Alessandra Raengo; the second, Hip-Hop… Read more »
An Interview with African Film Festival Founder Mahen Bonetti
In the early 90’s, Mahen Bonetti, the Sierra Leone-born founder and executive director of the New York-based African Film Festival Inc., created both the African Film Festival and its traveling series counterpart. For the last two decades, the Festival has enjoyed immense success and garnered respect from the world of film festivals and and their… Read more »
Black Film Center/Archive Fall 2016 Preview
Black Film Center/Archive’s Fall Preview, 2016 The Black Film Center/Archive is pleased to announce its Fall semester programming for the 2016-2017 academic year. Below you will find information about both upcoming film screenings as well as artist and scholar visits. We’d like to thank the IU Cinema, The Media School, and our many other campus… Read more »
An Interview With Dorothy Berry
Meet Dorothy Berry, the Black Film Center/Archive’s 2015-2016 Graduate Assistant. In addition to completing her graduate studies (Masters of Arts in Ethnomusicology and Master of Library Science with an Archives Focus), Berry has played an important role in contributing to the success of the BFC/A’s year-round programming opportunities, including as programmer of the Fall… Read more »
Reflections Unheard: BFC/A Interview with Nevline Nnaji
On Friday, April 8, at 3pm, the Black Film Center/Archive, IU Libraries Media Services, and Directed by Women will present a free screening of Nevline Nnaji’s 2013 documentary, Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights. The screening will take place in the Phyllis Klotman Room (044B) at the Black Film Center/Archive in Wells Library, on… Read more »
THE BLACK G.I. and NO VIETNAMESE EVER CALLED ME NIGGER conclude IU Cinema series “40 Years On: Screening the Vietnam War”
This post was prepared as an introduction to the December 3, 2015, screening of Black Journal: The Black G.I. and No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, which concludes the series “40 Years On: Screening the Vietnam War.” The screening takes place at 7PM at the IU Cinema and will be followed by a discussion with… Read more »
BOAN of Contention: The 1979 IU Screenings of THE BIRTH OF A NATION
1979, IU Bicentennial, D. W. Griffith