Homecoming...Sometimes I am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clay
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Homecoming features archival footage of farms and the voices of Malcolm X and Julian Bond. Also included are excerpts from the testimony of freed slaves who went on to farm. The film, produced for the Independent Television Service, has won many awards including Best Documentary by the Prized Pieces International Film and Video Festival.
Charlene Gilbert is an independent filmmaker living in Cambridge, Mass., where she is a Bunting Fellow at Harvard University. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. from Temple University. Gilbert's works have been shown at national and international festivals.
Faculty Discussant: Dr. Allison Dorsey, Associate Professor of History
Sponsored by Black Studies, the Swarthmore College Library, and Film & Media Studies
Back to Black Film Festival Presentation
Tuesday
February 9, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Science Center 199