On October 11, 2013, 6:30pm, at IU Cinema there will be a free screening of Exploding Lineage! Queer of Color Histories in Experimental Media, featuring innovative work by a diverse group of 14 queer media artists of color.. Twenty-five years have passed since 300,000 to 500,000 people marched on Washington D.C. for gay rights; twenty-five… Read more »
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50 Years: The March on Washington 1963-2013
Tonight, in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, U.S. State Department is preparing to live stream The March, a 1964 documentary by James Blue about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. Preceding the film will be a short introduction by John Robinson, Director of the Office of Civil Rights at… Read more »
Documentary Filmmaker, William Miles, Dies at 82
William Miles, also known as Bill, lived a life devoted to exploring and documenting the history, culture, and achievements of African Americans. On May 12, at the age of 82, Miles died in Queens, reported the New York Times. Although stricken with a number of health problems, the cause of his death is unknown. Born… Read more »
Starts Tonight: The Shared Ethnography of Jean Rouch @ the IU Cinema
Influential French documentarian Jean Rouch is the focus of a retrospective at the IU Cinema this month. The series opens tonight at 6:30 pm with a double header of Les Maîtres Fous and Moi, un Noir. Rouch’s 1967 classic Jaguar will screen on Saturday, February 9 at 6:30 pm. Mammy Water and The Lion Hunters… Read more »
Pullman Porters on Screen, Part 2 (Since 1960)
As the prominence of American railroads began to decline drastically in the post-war era, and the escalating civil-rights movement diversified workplace opportunities for African Americans, the ubiquity of the Pullman Porter also began to fall. In film, the ‘Pullman-Porter-as-black-archetype-for-white-audiences’ lost currency, and the figure of the Pullman Porter relocated to a very different branch of… Read more »
Pullman Porters on Screen, Part 1 (Pre-1960)
The legacy of Pullman porters and the labor union eventually formed by them – the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters – is an important one in American and labor history. Correspondingly, Pullman porters have left their imprint on American film in many different ways through the years, though the volume and type of those depictions… Read more »
AMIA 2012: Trip Report
As Assistant Archivist at the BFC/A, I recently had an opportunity to attend the annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in Seattle. It was immensely informative (and more than a bit exciting), giving me a chance to see what work is being done in the preservation and restoration of film materials around… Read more »
To See & Hear History: The SF State Strike Collection at the SF Bay Area Television Archive
Friday, December 14th, 2012, marks the 44th anniversary of classes being suspended at San Francisco State University, amidst a strike led by the Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front, demanding the establishment of various Ethnic Studies departments and an end to the Vietnam War. In 2008, San Francisco State University celebrated the 40th anniversary of the… Read more »
25th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
Founded in the 1980s, Mix NYC, a non-profit organization based in New York City, New York, has dedicated its existence to the promotion of previously marginalized works from gay, lesbian, transgender and queer artists in the field of cinematography. November 13th, 2012 marked the 25th anniversary of Mix NYC’s continued commitment to, and celebration of,… Read more »
To Save and Project: ‘Rufus Jones for President’ screens this weekend at MoMA
Rufus Jones for President, a 1933 Warner Brothers short, screens this weekend at To Save and Project, the 10th International Festival of Preservation at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Presented in an archival print from the collections of the Black Film Center/Archive, Roy Mack’s Rufus will be paired with Gregory La Cava’s Gabriel Over… Read more »