'Ashes & Embers' (1982)
Sunday, October 23, 2011
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm, UCLA Hammer Museum - Billy Wilder Theater
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema - Film Series
See below for additional information.
Admission
Tickets: Advanced tickets: $10 online. In-person sales one hour before showtime: $9 general public; FREE to UCLA students with valid ID; $8 other students/seniors.
Contact
Film and Television Archive
(310) 825-8787
archive@ucla.edu
Website
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2011-10-07/la-rebelli...
Additional Information
This major film exhibition by the UCLA Film & Television Archive celebrates an historic artistic movement of Los Angeles-based African American and African filmmakers who met at UCLA from the 1960s to 1980s and worked to forge a cinema that would be responsive to black communities. The Archive will present more than 50 film and video works, most of which have never screened theatrically, many in new or restored prints, and often with the filmmaker present.
'Ashes & Embers' (1982): Ned Charles is an African American Vietnam veteran who no longer fits in, can’t find a job and is ultimately arrested by the police. Like his protagonist, Haile Gerima is both drawn to and skeptical of the Black Nationalist ideology. Finally, Gerima places his faith in African American youth, a vision of utopia after the grim lessons of contemporary race relations in America.
Preceded by: 'Hour Glass' (1971): A young African-American male rethinks his role as a basketball player for the white establishment as he reads the works of Third World theoreticians, such as Franz Fanon.
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