BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//University of Chicago//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20230203T013000Z DTEND:20230203T023000Z SUMMARY:Adaptation and Beyond DESCRIPTION:In 1976\, an extraordinary group of Black feminist artists an d activists organized the first ever Black women's film festival: the Soj ourner Truth Festival of the Arts. Films by Michelle Parkerson\, Ayoka Ch enzira\, Edie Lynch\, and Madeline Anderson\, among others\, were screene d. The festival was simultaneously a celebration of the emerging world of Black women's filmmaking as well as a radical call for the kinds of soci o-political and institutional changes necessary for a Black women's film culture to thrive. Four decades later\, the Sojourner Truth Festival of t he Arts\, 2023 commemorates the 1976 festival with a nine-week screening series\, held in conjunction with Professor Allyson Nadia Field's winter 2023 course "Creating a Different Image: Black Women's Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s\," and a two-day symposium about the original festival and the tradition of Black feminist filmmaking. For more information\, visit voic es.uchicago.edu/sojourner (http://voices.uchicago.edu/sojourner) This program considers what it means to refashion\, transform\, and interpret. Adapted from a short story by Alice Walker\, Julie Dash's The Diary of a n African Nun (1977) centers on a nun in Uganda reflecting on her life an d faith. Anita W. Addison's Eva's Man is an adaptation of part of Gayl Jo nes' 1976 novel of the same name\, in which a Black woman murders and cas trates her lover and refuses to tell a white psychologist why. Liz White' s feature Othello (filmed between 1962 and 1966 and first screened in 198 0) was the first film version of Shakespeare's tragedy that starred a Bla ck man\, Yaphet Kotto\, and remains the only Shakespearean film directed by a Black woman. The feature film adapts Shakespeare's tragedy to the 19 60s\, using an all-Black cast and crew (including music by Hugh Masekela) to reimagine the play in a way that addressed colorism in the Black comm unity\, Afrocentrism\, and the Black Power Movement. (digital video and 1 6mm\, 139 min.) Diary of an African Nun and Eva's Man courtesy of the UC LA Film and Television Archive. Othello courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Othello has been preserved with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Presented by the Film Studies Center\, Sisters in Cinema\, a nd South Side Projections\, and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics\, and Culture. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
In 1976\, an extraordinary group of Black feminist artists and activists or ganized the first ever Black women's film festival: the Sojourner Truth F estival of the Arts. Films by Michelle Parkerson\, Ayoka Chenzira\, Edie Lynch\, and Madeline Anderson\, among others\, were screened. The festiva l was simultaneously a celebration of the emerging world of Black women's filmmaking as well as a radical call for the kinds of socio-political an d institutional changes necessary for a Black women's film culture to thr ive. Four decades later\, the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts\, 2023 commemorates the 1976 festival with a nine-week screening series\, held in conjunction with Professor Allyson Nadia Field's winter 2023 course "C reating a Different Image: Black Women's Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s\," a nd a two-day symposium about the original festival and the tradition of B lack feminist filmmaking. For more information\, visit voices.uchicago.edu/sojourner
This program considers what it means to refashion\, transform\, and inter pret. Adapted from a short story by Alice Walker\, Julie Dash's The D iary of an African Nun (1977) centers on a nun in Uganda reflecting on her life and faith. Anita W. Addison's Eva's Man is an adapta tion of part of Gayl Jones' 1976 novel of the same name\, in which a Blac k woman murders and castrates her lover and refuses to tell a white psych ologist why. Liz White's feature Othello (filmed between 1962 an d 1966 and first screened in 1980) was the first film version of Shakespe are's tragedy that starred a Black man\, Yaphet Kotto\, and remains the o nly Shakespearean film directed by a Black woman. The feature film adapts Shakespeare's tragedy to the 1960s\, using an all-Black cast and crew (i ncluding music by Hugh Masekela) to reimagine the play in a way that addr essed colorism in the Black community\, Afrocentrism\, and the Black Powe r Movement. (digital video and 16mm\, 139 min.)
Diary of an A frican Nun and Eva's Man courtesy of the UCLA Film and Tele vision Archive. Othello courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video C ollection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Oth ello has been preserved with funding from the Carnegie Corporation o f New York.
Presented by the Film Studies Center\, Sister s in Cinema\, and South Side Projections\, and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics\, and Culture.
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