Film
Black Liberation (aka Silent Revolution) + Shorts
- 7PM
Post-screening panel discussion with series programmer Ashley Clark, Ashley James (Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum), and poet, author, and professor Jamal Joseph.
Dir. Edouard De Laurot
1967, 37min, Digital
Made in collaboration with Malcolm X, this rarely-seen, powerfully propulsive call to arms—“an authentic outcry coming from the black people of America,” as it describes itself—layers revolutionary text (narrated by Ossie Davis) with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of African-American struggle.
US premiere of a new scan.
Dir. Third World Newsreel
1968, 15min, Digital
One of the first films made about the Black Panthers features interviews with Eldridge Cleaver and an imprisoned Huey Newton, footage of the party’s bullet-riddled Los Angeles headquarters in the aftermath of a police raid, and cofounder Bobby Seale laying out the original Ten-Point Program.
Dir. Madeline Anderson
1967, 14min, Digital
Madeline Anderson offers an illuminating perspective on the revolutionary icon through revealing archival footage and an interview with his widow, Betty Shabazz.
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William Klein and Agnés Varda document the Black Panther movement.
The first black British film examines what it means to be an outsider in your own society.
The filmmakers of the Black Power era revolutionize cinematic form.