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February 20, 2009
Frequent Small Meals & Atlanta Cyclorama presents: Civil Rights on Film
Four nights of rare films on African-American life, 1941-1967
Curated by Andy Ditzler
February 20 - 21, 2009
Admission: Donations only
Government training films, cinema verite documentaries, experimental forms, itinerant and ephemeral films, network news reports, activist film, and the avant-garde: the explosion of moving image forms in the mid-twentieth century was a prism through which the complexity of African-American life was shown. New ways of documentary filmmaking coincided with the spectacular growth of the Civil Rights movement, documenting the movement with unprecedented intimacy. And by the late 1960s, image-conscious subcultures and political identities were foreshadowed in the way documentary began to merge autobiography with narrative – and to challenge notions of cinematic truth. Civil Rights on Film captures this movement with a series of rare and important moving image works, all made between 1941 and 1967.
For further details and descriptions of film series check out Mr. Ditzlers website at http://andel.home.mindspring.com/civilrights_home.htm
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