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 »
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Mary Perry Smith. In addition to her roles as an educator, a philanthropist, and a promoter of black cultural heritage, Mary Perry Smith was a co-founder of Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI). For over thirty years Smith played many roles within the… Read more »
The latest issue of Black Camera: An International Film Journal is now available in print and online from the Indiana University Press. The Spring 2015 issue includes two Close-ups: One on John Akomfrah and the Black Audio Film Collective, from guest editors Matthias De Groof and Stéphane Symons, featuring articles by Stoffel Debuysere, Kobena Mercer,… Read more »
The Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) has announced its Summer Research Fellowship, a new program offered in partnership with repositories on the Bloomington campus. The Black Film Center/Archive is pleased to be among the partner repositories for this program. Beginning in Summer 2015, IAS will fund a short-term Summer Research Fellowship for a… Read more »
13755 – Project Archivist, Communication and Culture (Black Film Center/Archive), Indiana University – Bloomington The Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive (BFCA) seeks qualified candidates for the position of Project Archivist. SUMMARY: Reporting to the Archivist and Head of Public and Technology Services, the Project Archivist will provide support for the project, Richard E. Norman and… Read more »
Phyllis R. Klotman, founder of the Black Film Center/ Archive and professor emerita in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, died on March 30th at her home in Manhattan. “She was one of the first to preserve black independent films, and in doing that, she encouraged us,” Charles Burnett remarked in his… Read more »
The latest issue of Black Camera: An International Film Journal is now available in print and online from the Indiana University Press. The issue includes an extensive special feature, “Ava DuVernay in conversation with Michael T. Martin — ‘A Call to Action’: Organizing Principles of an Activist Cinematic Practice,” drawn from discussions held during DuVernay’s… Read more »
“For the Black producer, television will be just another word for jazz. And jazz for the Afro-American has been a means of liberating the human spirit.”—William Greaves, NYT, Aug. 1970 “I am Furious Black,” wrote Harlem-born actor, filmmaker, and activist William Greaves (1926-2014) in a New York Times Op-Ed that ran in the summer of… Read more »
“Through exploring the visual materiality of the world that surrounds us I try to make the insignificant significant and reveal the hidden tensions between the material and the imagined.” –Adele Stephenson A striking film poster often frames or shapes our experience of a movie well before we enter the theater. When we recall movies that… Read more »
Barbara Ann O’Leary’s #DirectedbyWomen Seed & Spark crowdfunding campaign just passed the halfway mark towards its $20k seed fund goal, with one week left to go. O’Leary envisions a 15-day global film party to celebrate the diversity of female film-making. Most conversations about women filmmakers focus on the lack of women at the helm of… Read more »