International Lens Film Series
I Am Not Your Negro
Monday, Oct. 16, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.聽
Sarratt Cinema
2301 国产传媒 Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and English; and Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway 国产传媒 Prof of English.
Switzerland/France/Belgium/USA (2016)
Dir: Raoul Peck.
Based on James Baldwin鈥檚聽unfinished book on the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther聽King, Jr. Peck鈥檚 Oscar-nominated documentary uses archival footage and Baldwin鈥檚 own聽words to bring these stories to the screen. Peck unfolds the history of the Civil Rights聽movement suggesting the deep connections to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. I Am Not聽Your Negro is also a meditation on Hollywood鈥檚
role in America鈥檚 racist imagery. English/French.聽93 min. Blu-Ray.
Presented in Collaboration with the Department of English, Cinema & Media Arts, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for Humanities.
Angels of the Revolution
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.聽
Sarratt Cinema
2301 国产传媒 Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Polina Dimova, Lecturer in the Department of German, Russian, and East European Studies.
This colorful film imaginatively explores the聽cultural basis of the Russian Revolution. When Stalin built a town in northern USSR on the聽land of indigenous shamans in the 1930s, he mistakenly generated a landmark collision of聽cultures now known as the Great Samoyedic
War. Russian avant-gardists from the South,聽led by the legendary Communist fighter, 鈥淧olina the Revolutionary,鈥 trek up to the banks of the聽Amnya River eager to reconcile a Soviet utopia with the ideals of Ancient Paganism of the native peoples. Russian/Khanty with English subtitles. 113 min.
This event will be followed by panel discussion on Friday, October 20, to reflect on the repercussions of
the Russian Revolution from its immediate aftermath to contemporary Russia.
Presented in collaboration with the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, and the Cinema & Media Arts Program.