Summary
Screening and discussion of Towards A Black Testimony: Prayer/Protest/Peace (Languid Hands, 2019, 34 min).
FRIDAY | NOVEMBER 7 | 6 PM
NYU Cinema Studies, Michelson Theater
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
CINEMA STUDIES FRIDAY NIGHT SCREENING SERIES
TOWARDS A BLACK TESTIMONY
Borrowing its subtitle from We Insist!, the 1960 jazz album by drummer Max Roach and vocalist Abbey Lincoln, Towards A Black Testimony: Prayer/Protest/Peace (Languid Hands, 2019, 34 min) weaves texts, voices, archival footage and contemporary imagery into a collective portrait of Black defiance. Across three acts of a visual and sonic collage, Languid Hands meditate on the precariousness of Black life, mobilizing Black testimony to confront the limitations of law and legibility in testifying to the unseen and the unheard.
The screening will be followed by an extended conversation about the film and Black aesthetic practices of refusal with Imani Mason Jordan (Languid Hands), writer/film programmer Yasmina Price, and more!
Co-presented by CMCH’s WORLD RECORDS