I Heard It Through the Grapevine + James Baldwin from Another Place
The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on Film
September 11 - 14, 2015
I Heard It Through the Grapevine, in which James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, is paired with the short James Baldwin from Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 13m), which finds Baldwin in Istanbul musing about race, the American fascination with sexuality, insights into his interrupted writing decade in the country, and more.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Pat Hartley & Dick Fontaine, USA/UK, 1982, digital projection, 95m
James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham, and Atlanta, to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe, and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America—wondering “what happened to the children” and those “who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road.”
James Baldwin from Another Place
Sedat Pakay, Turkey, 1973, 35mm, 13m
This short finds James Baldwin in Istanbul musing about race, the American fascination with sexuality, insights into his interrupted writing decade in the country, the generosity of the Turks, and how being in another country, in another place, forces one to re-examine well-established attitudes about modern society.
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