Thu April 2, 2020
Always Moving: African American Portraiture in Experimental Film
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Presented in dialog with Dawoud Bey: An American Project (on view at SFMOMA February 15-May 25), Always Moving presents eight historical and contemporary moving image works created 1967-2019. Engaging with traditions as diverse as '60s New York underground filmmaking, '70s left coast political manifesto, portraiture, street photography and stag film, these films frame experiences of public and community life, family history and political struggle within the contexts of African American photographic traditions and countercultural expression. Screening includes films by Edward Owens, Samuel R. Delany, Haile Gerima, Ben Caldwell, Martine Syms, Mickalene Thomas, Kevin Jerome Everson and Paige Taul.
Image Credit: Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967) by Edward Owens
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Image Credit: Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967) by Edward Owens
Presented in dialog with Dawoud Bey: An American Project (on view at SFMOMA February 15-May 25), Always Moving presents eight historical and contemporary moving image works created 1967-2019. Engaging with traditions as diverse as '60s New York underground filmmaking, '70s left coast political manifesto, portraiture, street photography and stag film, these films frame experiences of public and community life, family history and political struggle within the contexts of African American photographic traditions and countercultural expression. Screening includes films by Edward Owens, Samuel R. Delany, Haile Gerima, Ben Caldwell, Martine Syms, Mickalene Thomas, Kevin Jerome Everson and Paige Taul.
Image Credit: Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967) by Edward Owens
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Image Credit: Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967) by Edward Owens
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