In Motion: Amiri Baraka
Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968 – 1986
February 6 - 21, 2015
Q&A with ImageNation Cinema Foundation founder Moikgantsi Ngama, writer/activist Kevin Powell, and Nicole Franklin & Kathe Sandler of The Black Documentary Collective
This video portrait shows the sage revolutionary at readings, on his radio show, at home, and appealing a punitive court ruling.
Screening with The New-Ark (Amiri Baraka, 1968, 25m) and a performance by Young Spirit House Movers from Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant (1968, 10m)
Q&A with ImageNation Cinema Foundation founder Moikgantsi Ngama, writer/activist Kevin Powell, and Nicole Franklin & Kathe Sandler of The Black Documentary Collective
This video portrait, filmed in the days leading up to Amiri Baraka’s appeal of his 90-day sentence for resisting arrest following an argument in his car outside the 8th Street Playhouse movie theater, documents Baraka at his radio show, at home with his wife and children, and performing at readings. It is a delicate vision of a revolutionary who has grown quieter—though never at rest, and as sage as ever. Screening with a performance by Leroi Jones’s Young Spirit House Movers, broadcast on Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant (USA, 1968, digital projection, 10m).
Screening with:
The New-Ark
Amiri Baraka, USA, 1968, digital projection, 25m
Produced by Harlem Audio-Visual and part of the collection of cameraman and producer James E. Hinton at the Harvard Film Archive, this film, previously believed to be lost, depicts the activism, educational programs, and art taking place at the Spirit House community center in Newark, NJ. Digital preservation by Anthology Film Archives. From the James Hinton Collection at the Harvard Film Archives. Images: LeRoi Jones, 1986, James Hinton Collection, Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University.
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