Following the great event with the wonderful film, “Hidden Figures”, we are happy to present our next screening in the Afri-Cinema series. This film is also within the context of the charged relationship between black and white population in USA.
In the late 70’s James Baldwin, the american author, has begun writing the american history through the lives of three of his friends – Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King. Baldwin always knew that one day he will have to begin this journey, one that follows the tensed relationship between black and white population in the United States, but he only finished 30 pages before his death. The film, leaning on Baldwin’s special observation, his poetic phrasing (alongside Samuel L. Jackson’s wonderful narrating) and rare footage and documentation, continues his ambitious project and aspires to look through Baldwin’s strong criticizing eyes the place violence and oppression are taking in America then and now.
We meet at room 109 building 74 \ Ben Gurion University.
Free entrance