HeyJaredBlack Film Archive by Maya S. Cade
Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films. In its current iteration, it showcases every Black made film from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming. This newsletter serves as its blog.
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Black Film Archive at 5 (opens the original)
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Dear friends,BLACK FILM ARCHIVE IS FIVE! That feat is thanks to you. It began with the ever pressing question: What does it mean to make Black cinematic history accessible? Five years in, I know for certain that articulating the visibility of Black cinema, cinema workers, and history means remaining attuned to how Black people live and seeing the fullness of the link between the celebration, contradictions, and crisis that exist in our memory of what came before. The past is endlessly rewriting
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