Collections/February 2021

The Criterion Channel Black Fire: 5 Short Films by Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena N. Harold

Featuring a new introduction by the filmmakers Made as part of an ongoing collaboration between experimental filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, historian Claudrena N. Harold, and the students and alumni of the University of Virginia, these unclassifiable, poetic short films explore the ways in which Black students have transformed the university—politically, socially, culturally, and intellectually—from the 1960s through the present. Creatively employing reenactment, interviews, music, and performance, Everson and Harold pay tribute to the unsung trailblazers who paved the way for greater equality on the UVA campus while bringing the university’s history of racial and social struggle into dialogue with the present. Added on Tuesday, 23 February 2021

5 films — 0 on the Channel, 5 unavailable