Everyday Abstraction: A Film Blackness Collection
This selection of short films was curated by City College of New York associate professor of film Michael Boyce Gillespie to accompany his James O. Naremore lecture, “Trapped in a Legend: Film, Media and the Art of Blackness.”
The screening will include “The I and S of Lives,” “Fucked Like a Star,” “Crow Requiem” and “T.” Gillespie will give a virtual introduction.
Gillespie is the author of “Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film” (Duke University Press, 2016); co-editor of “Black One Shot,” an art criticism series in ASAP/J; and editor of “Crisis Harmonies,” a music criticism series in “ASAP/J.” His research and writing focuses on Black visual and expressive culture, film theory, visual historiography, popular music and contemporary art. His recent work has appeared in Black Light: A Retrospective of International Black Cinema, Flash Art, Unwatchable, Ends of Cinema, ASAP/J and Film Quarterly.
The screening is hosted by the IU Cinema and is co-sponsored by The Media School and the Cultural Studies Program.
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