A Dream Is What You Wake Up From
Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968 – 1986
February 6 - 21, 2015
Q&A with filmmaker JT Takagi of Third World Newsreel, archivist Elena Rossi-Snook of the NYPL for the Performing Arts, and curator Clairesa Clay
Three black families, observed in their daily lives, their thoughts, values, and aspirations expressed on the soundtrack, as well as their different approaches to the struggle for survival in contemporary society.
Screening with Black Faces (Young Filmmakers Foundation, 1970, 16mm, 1m)
Q&A with filmmaker JT Takagi of Third World Newsreel, archivist Elena Rossi-Snook of the NYPL for the Performing Arts, and curator Clairesa Clay
Three black families, observed in their daily lives, their thoughts, values, and aspirations expressed on the soundtrack, and their different approaches to the struggle for survival in contemporary society and their methods of coping with the contradictory stresses placed on the individual in the family environment.
Screening with:
Black Faces
Young Filmmakers Foundation, USA, 1970, 16mm, 1m
A montage of faces from the Harlem community. Black Faces is courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, preserved with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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