Film
Toni, Adapted: Beloved
- 2PM
Programmer: Gaylene Gould
Dir. Jonathan Demme
With Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton
1998, 172min, 35mm
The only feature length film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s work, Beloved was overlooked by audiences unprepared for its uncompromising expressionist intensity. This supernatural tale stands as an impossible-to-shake experience that deftly captures the harrowing power of Morrison’s vision.
Pre-screening conversation with Gaylene Gould and Kaitlyn Greenidge (30 min)
A program dedicated to the extraordinary life, career, and legacy of Audre Lorde.
These shorts offer a call-and-response style interrogation of themes in Toni Morrison’s work.
A guided tour of the BAM Hamm Archives centering the Black experience in America.
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