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 »
Indiana University
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 »
BFC/A staffer Joyce Bevins wins film award
The Black Film Center/Archive congratulates Joyce “Eli” and Jean “Lu” Bevins on receiving the Elfenworks Social Justice Award from the Campus MovieFest Hollywood (CMF) for their short film, Systematic Living. Eli, a second-year Masters student in the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, recently joined the BFC/A staff as a summer archive assistant. Campus… Read more »
Fall Preview: BFC/A and IU Cinema Showcase Ava DuVernay + AFFRM
This September, the BFC/A will kick off our fall 2013 program with a seven-film series at the IU Cinema and other venues, featuring the work of Ava DuVernay and her pioneering theatrical distribution partnership AFFRM (African American Film Festival Releasing Movement). Named as one of Indiewire’s inaugural group of 40 Influencers, DuVernay is scheduled to… 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 »
Baseball in the Time of Cholera + Sun City Picture House at IU Cinema Tonight
Tonight at IU Cinema, visiting filmmakers Bryn Mooser and David Darg will be present to introduce and discuss their 2011 film Baseball in the Time of Cholera along with Darg’s earlier film, Sun City Picture House. The free event begins at 7PM. The two will return to the Cinema tomorrow at 3PM as part of… 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 »
“Two Tickets for Jihad, Please”: A Conversation with Parvez Sharma
Parvez Sharma is a filmmaker who made A Jihad for Love, a critically acclaimed documentary about Islam, told from the faith’s “most unlikely storytellers” – Muslims from the GLBTQ community. The film won Outstanding Documentary at the 2009 GLAAD Media Awards, and Best Documentary at both the Toronto Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the… 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 »