Blaxploitation pride deep cover 199210/4/2023 Greg de Cuir Jr., curator of the Black Light Retrospective: “ Black Light charts a historical panorama of international black cinemas while also putting into dialogue directors from a range of backgrounds that have made key works on the cultures and peoples of African descent, who have different identities and experiences in different parts of the world but with deep connections and relations. It will be a complete discussions, where every voice will be allowed to speak, think and be screened. Black Light will have the facial features of Laurence Fishburne, Pam Grier and Melvin Van Peebles, as well as those of many actors who where nameless, but left a definite mark on that kind of filmmaking, on their black cinema.īlack Light will be a survey exploring 1970s Blaxploitation, Race Movies from the 1920s and '30s, pioneering films, classics and rare, if not unseen gems. It will be films from America and Jamaica, from France and Brazil, from Switzerland and Senegal. It will be Jackie Brown and Tongues Untied, White Dog and Black Orpheus, She's Gotta Have Itand One Way or Another. Black Light will therefore be Spike Lee and Zózimo Bulbul, Euzhan Palcy and Kathleen Collins, Sidney Poitier and Ousmane Sembène, Med Hondo and Pier Paolo Pasolini. On the one hand, Black Light will feature the classics, the iconic filmmakers and known faces of black cinema on the other hand, the Retrospective of Locarno72 was conceived to highlight the many who were left out of screenings and common perceptions. That is to say, the known borders of "black cinema", the ones that are taken for granted, certified and definitive, but actually recount a single form of black filmmaking, one among many. The first screening will precede the Festival itself: on August 6, at 9.30 PM, Piazza Grande will be part of a pre-Festival night offered by Ascona Locarno and Event More, with a free showing of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989), In a prestigious restored print celebrating the film's 30th anniversary. The first? Do the Right Thing, by Spike Lee.īlack Light, the Retrospective of Locarno72, will provide an extensive overview of black filmmaking, beyond all borders. 47 shades of black, of black cinema, and as many musings on the children of Africa, at 24 frames per second. Retrieved 31 August 2019.It's not one, but many. "The Best Black Movies of the Last 30 Years". "Soul Team Six Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment". "20 Blaxploitation Films to Close Out Black History Month". ^ a b c d e f g h i Gullickson, Brad (28 February 2018)."One of Cinema's First Black Superheroes Is Not Who You Think It Is". Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971).Kung Fu - Soul Brothers of Kung Fu (1977).How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company.A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1978). Dolemite II: The Human Tornado (1976).Death of a Snowman aka Soul Patrol (1978). Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975).Black Belt Jones II – The Tattoo Connection (1978).The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976).
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