We are delighted to welcome filmmaker Billy Woodberry to present two nights of his moving-image work and the annual Les Blank Lecture on documentary film. For decades he was a part of a community of filmmakers in Los Angeles: an actor in Charles Burnett's When It Rains, a film narrator for Thom Andersen and Noël Burch's Red Hollywood and James Benning's Four Corners, and a longtime professor at CalArts.
Josslyn Luckett noted, "The life of the Afro-diasporic literary mind lives in his films," from Langston Hughes, whose short story he adapted for his first film, to his recent homage to Ousmane Sembène's first novel and his recovery of the life of the poet Bob Kaufman. She continued, "Woodberry has remained committed to telling this history [of Black 'literature, lore and history'], imagined and lived, through a subaltern lens."
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Josslyn Luckett noted, "The life of the Afro-diasporic literary mind lives in his films," from Langston Hughes, whose short story he adapted for his first film, to his recent homage to Ousmane Sembène's first novel and his recovery of the life of the poet Bob Kaufman. She continued, "Woodberry has remained committed to telling this history [of Black 'literature, lore and history'], imagined and lived, through a subaltern lens."
We are delighted to welcome filmmaker Billy Woodberry to present two nights of his moving-image work and the annual Les Blank Lecture on documentary film. For decades he was a part of a community of filmmakers in Los Angeles: an actor in Charles Burnett's When It Rains, a film narrator for Thom Andersen and Noël Burch's Red Hollywood and James Benning's Four Corners, and a longtime professor at CalArts.
Josslyn Luckett noted, "The life of the Afro-diasporic literary mind lives in his films," from Langston Hughes, whose short story he adapted for his first film, to his recent homage to Ousmane Sembène's first novel and his recovery of the life of the poet Bob Kaufman. She continued, "Woodberry has remained committed to telling this history [of Black 'literature, lore and history'], imagined and lived, through a subaltern lens."
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Josslyn Luckett noted, "The life of the Afro-diasporic literary mind lives in his films," from Langston Hughes, whose short story he adapted for his first film, to his recent homage to Ousmane Sembène's first novel and his recovery of the life of the poet Bob Kaufman. She continued, "Woodberry has remained committed to telling this history [of Black 'literature, lore and history'], imagined and lived, through a subaltern lens."
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