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Events
Memorabilia from Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame on Exhibit at Grunwald Gallery
A number of items from the Mary Perry Smith/Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (BFHFI) Archive Collection will be on display at the IU Grunwald Gallery from Friday, October 23 through Wednesday, November 18th as part of its exhibition “The Wunderkammer: Curiosities in Indiana University Collections.” An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 23rd… Read more »
SEMBENE! directors Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman visit Indiana University, Oct. 19-20
With a filmography spanning over forty years, Senegal’s Ousmane Sembène (1923-2007) earned international renown as a revolutionary artist and as the “Father of African Cinema” for his indigenized filmmaking practice. Sembène eschewed Western languages and narrative style for a new cinematic aesthetic drawing from African storytelling traditions, performed in African languages (Wolof, Diola, Bambara), and… Read more »
The Backstage of Intellectual Practice: Terri Francis and Andy Uhrich
Calling attention to the backstage of intellectual practice: Professor Terri Francis and Archivist Andy Uhrich Talk Archives, The Quandries of Seeing Educational Films Anew, and Whiteness In this interview Professor Terri Francis and Archivist Andy Uhrich discuss their upcoming participation in The Streets and the Classrooms: Educational and Industrial Films in an Era of Massive… Read more »
The Short Films of Abderrahmane Sissako, Thursday 4/16 at IU Cinema
“I think the main source of my inspiration is human beings: my neighbor, my neighbor’s neighbor, the person I buy milk from—all of those people.” – Abderrahmane Sissako Born in Mauritania and raised in Mali, Abderrahmane Sissako is often described as a filmmaker who expresses a particularly African point of view to an international audience…. Read more »
Sexuality and the Black Radical Imagination symposium, Friday, April 10
On Friday, April 10, the Department of Gender Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences will host the Sexuality and the Black Radical Imagination symposium, an exploration of the importance of black radical imagination to gender and sexual politics in 21st century black communities. This daylong event will be a transformative interdisciplinary conversation between… Read more »
Afrosurrealist Film Society: Conversation with Terri Francis, Part 2 – Blues Cinema
“The blues connects all my work on home movies, Caribbean cinema and experimental film.”– Terri Francis Last week, part one of my interview with IU professor Terri Francis, founder of the Afrosurrealist Film Society, focused on “Afrosurrealism” as a conceptual framework and highlighted the work of Akosua Adoma Owusu, the first visiting filmmaker of the series…. Read more »
Chicago's Black Cinema House to screen films by Alile Sharon Larkin & Julie Dash this Friday, Jan. 16
Black Cinema House will screen Alile Sharon Larkin’s 1979 short film Your Children Come Back to You (16mm print courtesy of the Black Film Center/ Archive), followed by Julie Dash’s recently remastered Illusions (1982) this Friday, January 16, 7PM. Still from Larkin’s Your Children Come Back to You Both Larkin and Dash earned their MFA… Read more »
Italian-Ghanaian filmmaker and activist Fred Kudjo Kuwornu coming to IU, Nov. 17-19
Indiana University’s Department of French & Italian will bring Fred Kudjo Kuwornu to campus next week to screen two of his award-winning documentaries– 18 Ius Soli and Inside Buffalo. Kuwornu will also show excerpts from his current project, Blaxploitation, during his lecture on “Blackness in Italian Cinema.” All events take place Nov. 17-19 (see details… Read more »
Blacula rises on Halloween Night, concluding the "Blaxploitation Horror of the 1970s" series at IU Cinema
“One look at the magnificent six feet, five inches of William Marshall, one echo of that profound, reverberating voice and one feels an anticipatory tingle of majestic things to come. He has a strange quality of solitariness…he is as awesome as a tiger in repose…Marshall stands quite still, then his arms rise, trembling and he… Read more »