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Saturday, September 21 11:30amMonday, September 23 7pm
4K RESTORATION
Oscar Micheaux’s landmark debut is no mere curio of cinema history. The oldest surviving feature film by a Black director jumps back and forth over the Mason-Dixon line as our heroine (Evelyn Preer) works to uplift the race and faces love and family troubles of her own. Micheaux captures many startling moments of century-old humanity and deft filmmaking. -Lee Gardner
1920 Oscar Micheaux 1.33:1 B&W DCP 79 min. With a new musical score by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
“With a brisk and sharp-edged style, Micheaux sketches a wide view of black society, depicting an engineer with an international career, a private eye with influential friends, a predatory gangster, devoted educators — and the harrowing ambient violence of Jim Crow, which he shows unsparingly and gruesomely. Micheaux’s narrative manner is as daring as his subject matter, with flashbacks and interpolations amplifying the story; a remarkable twist regarding Sylvia’s identity, slipped in at the end, opens up a nearly hallucinatory historical vortex.” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker)
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1711 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21201
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