Pioneering director and writer Raoul Peck will present I Am Not Your Negro on Sunday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium on the Hamilton College campus. This and all F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series events are free and open to the public.
Peck has spent a lifetime using film to tackle historical events and tough subject matter, while still engaging audiences politically, artistically, and socially. His Oscar nominated I Am Not Your Negro focuses on James Baldwin and is based on Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House.
According to Peck, “If you take any books of Baldwin and start reading, you’re not reading about the past, you’re reading about today; it’s as if he’s reacting to current news items.”
Recently, the on-line media journal Indiewire, listed I Am Not Your Negro as one of the top five documentaries of the 21st century.
Coming up:
- Sunday, Nov. 5: Ernie Gehr presents new work
- Sunday, Nov. 12: Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) presented by Bill Morrison
- Sunday, Dec. 3: Tomonari Nishikawa presents recent work
