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Lumumba: The Death of a Prophet
Sunday, January 25, 6:30pm
Raoul Peck: Après the Earthquake
(Reflecting back on Haiti's devastating earthquake 5 years later with a look at the documentaries and fiction vérité from globally recognized Haitian born master filmmaker Raoul Peck. A portion of the proceeds will go to Ciné Institute, Haiti's only film school, fostering a new generation of Haitian filmmakers.)
Curated by Michelle Materre and the Creatively Speaking Film Series
Co-sponsored by the Haiti Cultural Exchange, The DDPA (Durban Declaration & Programme of Action) Watch Group, The BDC (Black Documentary Collective), The Haitian Creole Language Institute and Harlem Karibe
Lumumba: The Death of a Prophet
Raoul Peck, 1992, 69 min
Lumumba: The Death of a Prophet offers a unique opportunity to reconsider the life and legacy of one of the legendary figures of modern African history. Like Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba is remembered less for his lasting achievements than as an enduring symbol of the struggle for self-determination. This deeply personal reflection by acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck on the events of Lumumba's brief twelve month rise and fall is a moving memorial to a man described as a giant, a prophet, a devil, and "a mystic of freedom". It is a film about remembering, it is even more a film about forgetting. Raoul Peck meditates on his own memories as the privileged son of an agricultural expert working for the regime that displaced Lumumba. He examines home movies, photographs, old newsreels and contemporary interviews with Belgian journalists and Lumumba's own daughter to try to piece together the tragic events and betrayals of 1960. Yet, as this film testifies, Lumumba's prophecy will not be silenced until Africa achieves its second independence where the promises of the first can be fulfilled.
Q&A with Michelle Materre and filmmaker and curator Shola Lynch
Shola Lynch is an award-winning American filmmaker who burst on the scene in 2004. Her second feature documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners is a first hand account of the events that thrust Angela Davis into the national spotlight, from a young college professor to a fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. This complex film has challenged Lynch and showcases her progress as a promising director and producer. Shola's first independent feature documentary, CHISHOLM '72 Unbought & Unbossed, about Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm's historic run for president in 1972, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, aired on PBS's POV series, and garnered two Independent Spirit Award nominations and a prestigious Peabody for excellence. Raised by a Canadian mother and a father from the tiny Caribbean island of Tobago, Shola grew-up in a multicultural and international environment in New York. From the ages of two to six, she regularly appeared on the classic children's television series Sesame Street. Shola is also the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Curator of the Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture in Harlem.
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343 Lenox Ave.
New York, NY 10027
United States
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