International Lens Film Series
I Am Not Your Negro
Monday, Oct. 16, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and English; and Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Prof of English.
Switzerland/France/Belgium/USA (2016)
Dir: Raoul Peck.
Based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book on the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Peck’s Oscar-nominated documentary uses archival footage and Baldwin’s own words to bring these stories to the screen. Peck unfolds the history of the Civil Rights movement suggesting the deep connections to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. I Am Not Your Negro is also a meditation on Hollywood’s
role in America’s racist imagery. English/French. 93 min. Blu-Ray.
Presented in Collaboration with the Department of English, Cinema & Media Arts, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for Humanities.
Angels of the Revolution
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Polina Dimova, Lecturer in the Department of German, Russian, and East European Studies.
This colorful film imaginatively explores the cultural basis of the Russian Revolution. When Stalin built a town in northern USSR on the land of indigenous shamans in the 1930s, he mistakenly generated a landmark collision of cultures now known as the Great Samoyedic
War. Russian avant-gardists from the South, led by the legendary Communist fighter, “Polina the Revolutionary,” trek up to the banks of the Amnya River eager to reconcile a Soviet utopia with the ideals of Ancient Paganism of the native peoples. Russian/Khanty with English subtitles. 113 min.
This event will be followed by panel discussion on Friday, October 20, to reflect on the repercussions of
the Russian Revolution from its immediate aftermath to contemporary Russia.
Presented in collaboration with the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, and the Cinema & Media Arts Program.