The Black Film Center/Archive has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities 2013 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to support the program, “Representing Early Black Film Artifacts as Material Evidence in Digital Contexts.” In November 2013, project director Brian Graney and lead scholar Michael T. Martin will convene an interdisciplinary group of scholars, moving image… Read more »
Black Film Center & Archive
The Lost Films of Kathleen Collins: U.S. Theatrical Premiere at the IU Cinema
To mark the recent restoration of Kathleen Collins’s rarely seen feature films, the Black Film Center/Archive is co-sponsoring a special screening of Losing Ground and The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy; this is the U.S. theatrical premiere of both restorations. The double header will show tonight, Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 pm at the IU… Read more »
Peter Davis Profile in IU International
The BFC/A’s Peter Davis Collection, consisting of films, videos, and related materials documenting Davis’s work in apartheid-era South Africa and beyond, was recently featured in IU International, the news magazine of the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs at Indiana University. The story is also available through the online publication, Inside IU Bloomington…. Read more »
Monday, March 18: Audre Lorde documentary and guests at IU Cinema
On Monday, March 18, the Black Film Center/Archive welcomes guests Drs. Marion Kraft and Dagmar Schultz to present and discuss the 2012 documentary, AUDRE LORDE: THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 to 1992. At 3:00 PM, Afro-German scholar and Lorde translator Dr. Marion Kraft will present a Jorgensen Lecture at IU Cinema to discuss her role in… Read more »
Sarah Fabio Exhibit
If you hear the word poet or poetry and as I do, imagine a pile of written words, placed at odd angles on a page, stanzas lacking punctuation, countless metaphors, its delivery silent to the ear, you have yet to be acquainted with the works of Sarah Fabio. Take a moment to listen to one… Read more »
March 4: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN with guest speaker David Kuhn
Grand Jury Prize winner of Sundance Film Festival 2012, The House I Live In will screen on March 4 at 7:00 pm in Jordan Hall 124. Co-sponsored by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American institutions, the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, the Black Film Center/Archive, the Department of Criminal Justice,… Read more »
Black History Month at the BFC/A
This month, the BFC/A will mark and celebrate Black History Month with a series of documentary screenings co-sponsored by the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of History, and the Black Law Students Association. The documentaries–all from the collections of California Newsreel–narrate several black labor struggles and the foundations of modern… Read more »
Madeline Anderson & I Am Somebody
I really didn’t let gender and race issues bother me. I knew I would have trouble with both. I was determined to do what I was going to do at any cost. I kept plugging away. Whatever I had to do, I did it. –Madeline Anderson, from Reel Black Talk In 1969, Madeline Anderson was… Read more »
THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR named to the National Film Registry
Directed by Ivan Dixon from Sam Greenlee’s adaptation (with Melvin Clay) of his 1969 novel, THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) has been selected by Librarian of Congress James Billington as one of 25 titles named to the National Film Registry in 2012. “Established by Congress in 1989, the National Film Registry spotlights… Read more »
No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger (1968) screening 11/15 at Boxcar Books
On Thursday, November 15, at 7:00 PM, the Black Film Center/Archive and Boxcar Books present a free public screening of the 1968 documentary No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger. The event takes place at Bloomington’s Boxcar Books and Community Center, 408 E. 6th St. Directed by David Loeb Weiss with camerawork by Michael Wadleigh (credited… Read more »