Black Cinema 1: Image and Mirage, Meaning and Identity
Cinema Project + BCC: Brown Hall present...
Black Cinema 1: Image and Mirage, Meaning and Identity
An evening of short experimental films by Black filmmakers from around the world. Friday, April 8th, 7:30pm. PCC Cascade Campus (705 N Killingsworth), Terrell Hall Auditorium, Room 122.
$8 suggested donation at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds).
?Attempting to engage with both the experimental films of black artists addressing race and the African-American community here in Portland, we are partnering with the BCC: Brown Hall to create programming that looks to contribute to larger movements towards equality and an end to state-supported brutality. Black Bullets pays tribute to the act of revolt. Inspired by the Haitian revolution, it was filmed on The Citadel, a mountaintop fortress that has become a sign of freedom and an icon of Haiti. Reckless Eyeballing is a hypnotic inspection of sexual desire, racial identity, and film history. In Cauleen Smith’s experimental biography, marginal representations of black female identity are transposed on images and locations spanning vast spaces, places, and time. American Hunger functions as an audio-visual meditation on the constructs surrounding African-American cultural identity while simultaneously examining an identity that spans hundreds of years, and thousands of miles. And Medea is a collage film that explores the information that permeates into a yet unborn child. Sounds provided by Jonny Cool Stargazer.
