Mike Henderson Program
55th New York Film Festival
September 29 - October 15, 2017
One of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson makes work that thrums with a sociopolitical, humorous sensibility. Features eight films from the ’70s and ’80s, all 16mm.
Q&A with Mike Henderson following the screening
A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s. Henderson’s work throughout the 1970s and 1980s, from which this program of 16mm films is culled, thrums with a sociopolitical, humorous sensibility that lends his small-scale, often musically kissed portraits (which he later dubbed “blues cinema”) a personal, artisanal quality.
All films preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
MONEY, 1970, 2m
Dufus (aka Art), 1970/73, 6m
The Shape of Things, 1981, 8m
The Last Supper, 1970/73, 8m
When & Where, 1984, 3m
Down Hear, 1972, 12m
Mother’s Day, 1970, 14m
Pitchfork and the Devil, 1979, 16m
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