Virtual Q&A with Filmmaker Louise Greaves & Professor Michele Prettyman Moderated by SMS Faculty Member Michelle Materre, 2/26
2/26 Virtual Q&A with filmmaker Louise Greaves & Professor Michele Prettyman moderated by SMS Faculty Michelle Materre
This event features SMS Faculty Michelle Mattere.
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana in 1972, an historic event that gathered black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, Isaac Hayes, Richard Roundtree, and H. Carl McCall. Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, the film was considered too militant for television broadcast at the time and has since circulated only in an edited 58-minute version. This new 4K restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.
MEMBERS: This film is eligible for your free member ticket through Feb. 28 on our Virtual Marquee.
Tickets: $10 (members), $12 (nonmembers)
Friday, February 26, 2021, 7:00 PM
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