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**date change due to a death in the family**Free screening in our parking lot presented by Luminal Theater. Bring your own chair! We have some picnic tables but seating is limited. Movie starts at 8:30pm.
THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost.
Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into the lives of black families, whose experiences and perspectives are often missing from the traditional historical canon. African Americans historically embraced the medium as a way to subvert popular stereotypes as far back as the Civil War era, with Frederick Douglass photographed in a suit and black soldiers posing proudly in their uniforms. These images show a much more complex and nuanced view of American culture and its founding ideals.
Inspired by the book Reflections in Black by photo historian Deborah Willis, the film features the works of esteemed photographic artists Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza, Hank Willis Thomas, Coco Fusco, Clarissa Sligh, James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, and many others.
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The Luminal Theater is a 501c3 arts organization that due to predominantly-Black communities lacking access to the consistent film exhibition, is dedicated to exhibiting Black cinema within these places in both non-traditional and traditional ways. We are a home for Black cinema where we harness Blackness to reimagine our communities’ relationship to film, through abundance and integrity.
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