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To Trouble, Escape & Exceed - Curated by the Concerned Black Image Makers

July 9

Online event: 5 Stages of Nile with Miles Reuben & Darryl DeAngelo Terrell

July 8 - July 15

Through the Looking Glass (Pt 2): NU MFA Doc Media Thesis Showcase

June 10

Through the Looking Glass (Pt 1): NU MFA Doc Media Thesis Showcase

June 9

Opening Night of Like Water Through Stone: Celebrating Hamid Naficy

June 2

THE ISLAND OF ST MATTHEWS (2013) with Kevin Jerome Everson

May 27

Teasers of Empire: 1930s Action-Adventure Trailers and the Spectacle of Imperialism

May 26

To Render the Infinite: Visual Genealogies of Black Kinship - with Kevin Jerome Everson, Paige Taul, & zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o'neal

May 25

MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY (2021) with filmmaker Marion Hill

May 13

CETTE MAISON (2022) with filmmaker Miryam Charles

May 12

Looking at Listening: Films on Women and Experimental Music

May 6

FAUNA + DEAR CHANTAL with Nicolás Pereda

May 4

Block by Block: Short Films About Chicago

April 29

THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE (2013)

April 28

MAKE A DISTINCTION (2021) and FIELD RESISTANCE (2019) with filmmakers

April 22

NO ORDINARY MAN (2020) with filmmaker Chase Joynt

April 21

Workshop with Filmmaker Chase Joynt

April 20

LEVIATHAN (2012) with filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel

April 15

SWEETGRASS (2009) with filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor

April 14

The State of Texas vs Melissa (2020) with NPEP & UPEP

April 8

Writing with Fire (2021)

April 7

Night's End (2022) with filmmaker Jennifer Reeder

March 31

Flesh to Spirit: Materiality and Abstraction in Black Experimental Film

March 4

Environments of Struggle: Crystal Z. Campbell and Christopher Harris

March 3

Block Cinema Artist Talk: Crystal Z. Campbell -- Notes from Black Wall Street

March 2

Holding Binoculars, Pointing a Camera: A Cinema of Birdwatching

February 25

Wilmington 10 – USA 10,000 (1979)

February 18

The Birdpeople (2004)

February 16

Terra Femme (2021) live documentary-performance with Courtney Stephens

February 11

The American Sector (2020) with filmmaker Courtney Stephens

February 10