IN CINEMA
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
Saturday, June 22nd at 2PM
Dick Fontaine & Pat Hartley, 1982, 95 min.
“James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma to Birmingham, Atlanta to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, accompanied by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post-Civil Rights America — wondering ‘what happened to those who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road.’” — Rich Blint, writer/Baldwin scholar
Post-screening discussion with Pat Hartley and Rich Blint!
Pat Hartley is an African American Hungarian filmmaker, actress, and native New Yorker. The subject of a Warhol Screen Test, Hartley starred in the film Rainbow Bridge with Jimi Hendrix, and on stage in Heathcote Williams’ AC/DC. With filmmaker Dick Fontaine, Hartley co-produced numerous films, including the seminal Beat This! A Hip Hop History, with Afrika Bambaataa, chronicling the rise of hip-hop culture from the ashes of the South Bronx. A graduate of the American Film Institute, Hartley’s most recent short film series, Hung Up, shined a light on the dark side of love, moving women from victim to victorious.
Rich Blint is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Creative Writing, and African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. He is co-editor of a special issue of African American Review on James Baldwin, and wrote the introduction and notes for Baldwin for Our Times: Writings from James Baldwin for a Time of Sorrow and Struggle (Beacon Press). The co-editor of African American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Blint's upcoming books include A Radical Interiority: James Baldwin and the Personified Self in Modern American Culture, Approaches to Teaching the Work of James Baldwin, and Duppy Umbrella and Other Stories. His writing has appeared in Bomb Magazine, African American Review, James Baldwin Review, Anthropology Now, The Believer, McSweeney's, and the A-Line: a journal of progressive thought. He serves on the Executive Board of African American Review, and is a contributing editor to James Baldwin Review. He has held academic and administrative appointments at Columbia University, Barnard College, and the New School.
