America Garrett Bradley 30 Short Doc Bereka Nesanet Teshager Abegaze 7 Experimental Fainting Spells Sky Hopinka 11 Experimental Love Song for Latasha, A Sophia Nahli Allison 19 Short Doc Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You See the Stars Charlotte Brathwaite 9 Experimental T Keisha Rae Witherspoon 14 Short Narrative Maori Holmes is scheduled to… Read more »
This screening program from the 2019 BlackStar Film Festival offers a series of cinematic love letters, short films that reclaim and retell the lives of individuals and communities with deep reverence and formal innovation. Our title comes from playwright Charlotte Brathwaite’s short film which is itself drawn from the comments of Martin Luther King, Jr…. Read more »
Paulin Vieyra 7-DVD Box Set Available from African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF). This set includes Paulin Vieyra classics: Afrique sur Seine, Birago Diop, Môl, L’Envers du Décor – Ousmane Sembène: The Making of Ceddo, A Nation is Born, Lamb and Iba N’Diaye and a catalog of detailed history, timelines, highlights, testimonials and more.
Guest post by Audrey Hood, BFCA Archival Assistant The BFC/A recently hosted a two-day workshop on Paulin S. Vieyra, the renowned pioneer of post-colonial African film. Paulin’s son and president of PSVFilms, Stéphane Vieyra, spent the week at IU touring repositories, visiting classes, and participating in the workshop. During the preparation for the workshop, my… Read more »
Once Haunted is a two-part series examining the idea of haunting, both as a multifaceted trope of desire, physical ruins, loss, fear and social change, as well as a citation from specific genres of horror and surrealism. Conversation will follow the screening. Curated by Sarah Lasley formerly of Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design… Read more »
In conjunction with the College of Art and Sciences’ Themester focus on “Sustain.ability: Thriving on a Small Planet,” the Archives of African American Music and Culture is sponsoring a panel discussion/exhibit opening reception, Fear of a Bleak Planet: Rapping About Race, Poverty, and the Environment on Monday, Oct. 4th, 5-7pm. Fear of a Bleak Planet:… Read more »