Our Media Center takes you inside Film at Lincoln Center with photos, videos, and podcasts from our screenings, talks, and events, plus announcements of upcoming programs and coverage of our artist and education initiatives.
An Evening with Kent Garrett
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January 15, 2015
Q&A with Kent Garrett and Kazembe Balagun of Rosa Luxemburg Shiftung, New YorkTwo docs made for Black Journal examining the perennial outsider status accorded to those ostensibly on the inside—policemen in Central Harlem and Los Angeles and African-American soldiers in Vietnam.The Black GI (Kent Garrett, 1971, 54m)The Black Cop (Kent Garrett, 1969, 15m)
Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
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January 15, 2015
Q&A with filmmaker Charles Lane and author, filmmaker, and critic Nelson GeorgeSpike Lee’s NYU Masters program thesis (and the first student feature film ever selected for New Directors/New Films) is a precocious work from a major artist, irrefutable evidence that its maker would go on to become one of the greats.Screening with A Place in Time (Charles Lane, 1977, 34m)
Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant Program
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January 15, 2015
Q&A with Charles Hobson moderated by Devorah Heitner, author of Black Power TV. Heitner and Hobson will participate in a book signing directly following in the Frieda & Roy Furman Gallery.A selection of episodes, presented by producer Charles Hobson, of what is considered the first African American–produced television series, originally conceived to counter images of black neighborhoods in the mainstream news.
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
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January 15, 2015
Q&A with ImageNation Cinema Foundation founder Moikgantsi Ngama, writer/activist Kevin Powell, and Nicole Franklin & Kathe Sandler of The Black Documentary CollectiveThis 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)
I Remember Harlem
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January 15, 2015
Baldwin is interviewed for William Miles’s landmark epic documenting the early settlement of the Village of Harlem in the 17th century, to the specter of urban renewal and redevelopment in the 1970s. The film chronicles the centuries of change and political and artistic expression that has made this complex hamlet the capital of urban America.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine + James Baldwin from Another Place
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January 15, 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.
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
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January 15, 2015
An affluent scholar develops a taste for blood in Spike Lee’s reinterpretation of Bill Gunn’s 1973 cult thriller Ganja & Hess, which Lee calls “a new kind of love story,” blending social awareness with invigorating low-budget roughness.
Ganja and Hess
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January 14, 2015
Post-screening discussion with film scholar, filmmaker and distributor/preservationist Pearl Bowser; producer Chiz Schultz; and composer Sam Waymon on February 7Introduction by Spike Lee on February 8Recut for its U.S. release, Ganja and Hess, was first made available years later in its intended version by independent distributor Pearl Bowser, and, now restored, is considered a classic. Conceived as a vampire tale, Gunn’s film is a formally radical and deeply philosophical inquiry into passion and history.
An Evening with Jessie Maple
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January 14, 2015
Q&A with Jessie Maple and Leroy PattonAn evening with trailblazer and pioneer Jessie Maple, the first African-American woman to gain entry in New York’s camera operators union. This program will include her feature debut, Will, the story of a basketball coach fighting demons and dealing with modern urban life.Will (Jessie Maple, 1981, 70m)
Black Journal Program
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January 14, 2015
Q&A with Charles Hobson, Louise Greaves, Kent Garrett, Madeline Anderson, and Lou Potter moderated by Mable Haddock, founding President and CEO of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC)The first nationally broadcast black newsmagazine, produced by William Greaves and Lou Potter and hosted by Wali Saddiq and Greaves, was home to a who’s-who of producers, directors, editors, and cinematographers working in a diversity of styles with unrivaled creativity and experimentation.