FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 5-7 PM
TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’ (80 mins, 2017, Dir: Sam Pollard)
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Screening of Two Trains Runnin’, about the search for two forgotten blues singers set in Mississippi during the height of the civil rights movement. This feature-length documentary directed by SAM POLLARD is narrated by Common, and features the music of Gary Clark Jr. The film pays tribute to a pioneering generation of musicians and cuts to the heart of our present moment, offering a crucial vantage from which to view the evolving dynamics of race in America. Named one of the best documentaries of 2017 by Rolling Stone magazine, Two Trains Runnin’ was also honored with a Grammy nomination for Best Music Film.
Screening will be followed by a Q&A with director SAM POLLARD (NYU FILM & TV), producer BEN HEDIN, and anthropologist MAUREEN MAHON (NYU Music Department), author of BLACK DIAMOND QUEENS: African American Women and Rock and Roll (Duke University Press, 2020) and RIGHT TO ROCK: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race (2004).
Co-sponsors: NYU Film & TV, Music Department, and Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black VIsual Culture; The Flaherty
Photos: Son House and Skip James (top) and Gary Clark Jr (bottom), featured in Two Trains Runnin’