Langston Hughes African American Film Festival

Last August, Weird Tales magazine, long a fixture on the speculative fiction landscape, got hit with a heavy dose of online fury. The publication had made plans to publish an excerpt from an ecolog…

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UNLOCKING THE TRUTH “Kriss Kross this isn’t. Lock up your daughters, America: these sixth-grade metalheads from Flatbush, Brooklyn are on a mission to rock your socks off.”

HOLY SHIT.

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Executive producers Jay-Z, Dream Hampton, and Wyatt Cenac present Terence Nance’s explosively creative debut feature, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY. With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, the film utilizes a tapestry of live action and multiple styles of animation as it documents the relationship between Terence (Nance) and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic. Blurring the line between narrative, documentary, and experimental film, the film explores the fantasies, emotions, and memories that race through Terence’s mind as he examines and re-examines a singular moment in time.

Explosively creative and utilizing a tapestry of live action and various styles of animation, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY documents the relationship between Terence and a smart, beautiful young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.

A favorite at Sundance and Bronze Lens (Winner: Best Feature), the film also opened recently in New York to critical acclaim and emerged as a New York Times Critics Pick.  Executive producers include Jay-Z, Wyatt Cenac, dream hampton, and Joy Bryant, and the film features original music from Flying Lotus.

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The Temptations, Newark, N.J. 1968 by Walter Iooss Jr.

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thepatientpenwoman:

She is beautiful.

Beautiful.

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Photographer Hélène Amouzou was born in 1969 in Togo. She began taking photos in 2004 after enrolling on a course in Brussels, where she lives and works. Her images - in which bodies are ghostly or overlaid with wallpaper or sandwiched in suitcases - suggest transience: places which the human body can only inhabit temporarily, and humans who are constantly on the move.  

Her work is weighted by the depth of her questions about place, being and the baggage that accrues to the black female body. Further, Amouzou’s images question certainties of nation, identity and belonging, suggesting that in-between spaces and un-belonging as the contemporary reality. in her own words: ““I always have the impression to be traveling. I am not Togolese, nor Belgian” 

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La Carreta Literaria ¡Leamos! de Cartagena (Cartagena’s Literary Wagon, Let’s read!).

Martín Murillo Gómez has been traveling with his wagon through Cartagena, Colombia. His is the only wagon that transports books.

He lends the books to readers and he also reads to the people who gather around him in parks, plazas, schools and universities.

Sometimes you’ll find him reading from a book with blank pages, stories that he has created for years to invite children to the world of literature.

His journey has led him to meet personalities such as Gabriel García Márquez, who found a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude and sign it for him.

Thanks to Murillo’s effort and the support of others, the wagon that started with 120 books (some of which he bought with the money he made by selling water on the streets and some which were donated by people who believed in his project) now has 3,500 books.

With the support of sponsors, Murillo has been able to continue with his passion for reading and his commitment to spread the love for literature.

On Facebook.

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Afrofuturism’s Others at Tate Modern
Saturday June 15, 2013 at 2pm

Ellen Gallagher’s work deconstructs received truths and weaves together propositional narratives, inhabiting spaces where the future collapses into the past, obsolescence into technology and image into text. These are spaces carved out by the cultural aesthetic of Afrofuturism.

In the context of Gallagher’s work, speakers will explore and complicate readings of Afrofuturism and its influence on contemporary artists’ practices, creating an intricate understanding of the genre and its evolutions. Speakers include Zoe Whitley (Independent Curator and panel co-organiser), Hazel V. Carby (Professor of African American Studies and Director of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalisation at Yale University), Amna Malik (Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Fine Art,UCL), and Lili Reynaud-Dewar.

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Past LHAAFF guest, filmmaker and AFFRM founder Ava DuVernay discusses race, gender and storytelling on the Melissa Harris-Perry show.