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 »
Events
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 »
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 Ugandan’ to Premiere in Boston
The Ugandan – a new film from director Patrick Sekyaya – will make its US premiere on Thursday, December 6th, at the Embassy Theater in Boston. The film chronicles several intertwined and complicated relationships that result from Idi Amin’s 1972 expulsion of Asians from Uganda. From the film’s synopsis: The Ugandan is a feature film… 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 »
‘Confronting the Other’ with Claire Denis at Indiana University
Confronting the Other, an exploration of Claire Denis’s work as a filmmaker to engage with various manifestations of Otherness, will be hosted at Indiana University and will feature a visit and conversation with Claire Denis, seven film screenings, and a poster exhibition at the BFC/A featuring posters of Denis’s films. Chocolat, I Can’t Sleep, Nenette… Read more »
'Shirley Clarke’s Cool World' at the IU Cinema
Shirley Clarke’s Cool World, a series celebrating the filmmaking of Shirley Clarke, will screen three of the prodigious filmmaker’s features and host a lecture by Milestone Film’s Dennis Doros on Clarke’s contributions to independent cinema. The Connection (1962) will screen on Thursday, November 1st at 7:00pm, with Ornette: Made in America and Robert Frost: A… Read more »
‘Maestra’ at the IU Cinema
Maestra, a 2011 documentary by Catherine Murphy, will be shown at the IU Cinema on October 8th, at 7pm. From the IU Cinema homepage: In 1960, Cuba made an open call for volunteer teachers for the Cuban Literacy Campaign. Over 250,000 people volunteered, including thousands of very young women who achieved a degree of independence… Read more »