Thu May 10, 2018
Arthur Jafa: Dreams are Colder than Death
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at Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA
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Arthur Jafa: Dreams are Colder than Death
Related Exhibition Nothing Stable under Heaven
Thursday, May 10, 6pm
Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater
Join us for a screening of Dreams are Colder than Death (2014), an experimental documentary/essay film by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa that reflects on the legacy of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and offers a profound and nuanced rumination on the question: “What does it mean to be black in America today?” Jafa interweaves and layers disparate and haunting imagery with interviews with some of the most significant and influential contemporary thinkers about black arts, black studies, and black experience, including artists Kara Walker and Mangechi Mutu, poet Fred Moten, filmmaker Charles Burnett, professors Hortense Spillers and Saidiya Hartman, musician Flying Lotus, and more.
Arthur Jafa’s Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death is featured in Nothing Stable under Heaven on Floor 7.
Free with RSVP - https://www.sfmoma.org/event/arthur-jafa-dreams-are-colder-death/
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Related Exhibition Nothing Stable under Heaven
Thursday, May 10, 6pm
Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater
Join us for a screening of Dreams are Colder than Death (2014), an experimental documentary/essay film by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa that reflects on the legacy of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and offers a profound and nuanced rumination on the question: “What does it mean to be black in America today?” Jafa interweaves and layers disparate and haunting imagery with interviews with some of the most significant and influential contemporary thinkers about black arts, black studies, and black experience, including artists Kara Walker and Mangechi Mutu, poet Fred Moten, filmmaker Charles Burnett, professors Hortense Spillers and Saidiya Hartman, musician Flying Lotus, and more.
Arthur Jafa’s Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death is featured in Nothing Stable under Heaven on Floor 7.
Free with RSVP - https://www.sfmoma.org/event/arthur-jafa-dreams-are-colder-death/
Arthur Jafa: Dreams are Colder than Death
Related Exhibition Nothing Stable under Heaven
Thursday, May 10, 6pm
Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater
Join us for a screening of Dreams are Colder than Death (2014), an experimental documentary/essay film by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa that reflects on the legacy of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and offers a profound and nuanced rumination on the question: “What does it mean to be black in America today?” Jafa interweaves and layers disparate and haunting imagery with interviews with some of the most significant and influential contemporary thinkers about black arts, black studies, and black experience, including artists Kara Walker and Mangechi Mutu, poet Fred Moten, filmmaker Charles Burnett, professors Hortense Spillers and Saidiya Hartman, musician Flying Lotus, and more.
Arthur Jafa’s Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death is featured in Nothing Stable under Heaven on Floor 7.
Free with RSVP - https://www.sfmoma.org/event/arthur-jafa-dreams-are-colder-death/
read more
Related Exhibition Nothing Stable under Heaven
Thursday, May 10, 6pm
Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater
Join us for a screening of Dreams are Colder than Death (2014), an experimental documentary/essay film by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa that reflects on the legacy of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and offers a profound and nuanced rumination on the question: “What does it mean to be black in America today?” Jafa interweaves and layers disparate and haunting imagery with interviews with some of the most significant and influential contemporary thinkers about black arts, black studies, and black experience, including artists Kara Walker and Mangechi Mutu, poet Fred Moten, filmmaker Charles Burnett, professors Hortense Spillers and Saidiya Hartman, musician Flying Lotus, and more.
Arthur Jafa’s Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death is featured in Nothing Stable under Heaven on Floor 7.
Free with RSVP - https://www.sfmoma.org/event/arthur-jafa-dreams-are-colder-death/
show less
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