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"More Than a Month" A Black History Month Special
Doc Watchers and Sylvia Savadjian Present a Black History Month Special:
A screening of the film 'More Than a Month' which explores the question "Should Black History Month be ended?" as African American filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman embarks on a cross-country campaign to do just that. The screening will be followed by Q&A with director Shukree Hassan Tilghman and Anthony Riddle, Managing Director of the Maysles Insitute and descendant of Dr. Carter Woodson, creator of Negro History Week. Plus a reception to follow.
"More Than a Month"
(Shukree Hassan Tilghman, 2012, 60 min.)
Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. He stops in various cities, wearing a sandwich board, to solicit signatures on his petition to end the observance. He explains that relegating Black History Month to the coldest, shortest month of the year is an insult, and that black history is not separate from American history. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a "post-racial" America. His road trip begins in Washington, D.C., crisscrosses the country during Black History Month 2010, and ends with an epilogue one year later. Each stop along the journey explores Black History Month as it relates to four ideas: education, history, identity, and commercialism. Tilghman's campaign to end Black History Month is actually a provocative gambit to open a public conversation about the idea of ethnic heritage months, and whether relegating African American history to the shortest month of the year and separating it from American history on the whole denigrates the role of black people and black culture throughout American history. But it is also a seeker's journey to reconcile his own conflicting feelings about his own identity, history, and convictions. "More Than a Month" is not just about a yearly tradition, or history, or being black in America. It is about what it means to be an American, to fight for one's rightful place in the American landscape, however unconventional the means, even at the risk of ridicule or misunderstanding. It is a film about discovering oneself.
Part of the Maysles Cinema series Doc Watchers, a Harlem, community-based documentary film screening club and series. Curated by Hellura Lyle, Maysles Cinema's very first screening partner. Doc Watchers usually occurs on the first Monday of every month at 7pm.
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York, NY 10027
United States
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