IN CINEMA

MADE IN HARLEM
THE LAFARGUE CLINIC REMIXED: THE QUIET ONE
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
Thursday, March 7th at 7 PM

Sydney Meyers, 1948, 63 min

This documentary tells the story of an emotionally distressed Harlem boy. He is sent to the Wiltwyck School for Boys to be rehabilitated due to his long-term inability to speak. The film explores the limits of his rage and rejection, with commentary by James Agee and narration by Gary Merrill. The Quiet Ones was nominated for Oscars for Best Documentary Feature and Best Screenplay in 1948. 

Post-Screening Discussion TBA

Made In Harlem: The LaFargue Clinic Remixed
Founded by Reverend Sheldon Hale Bishop (Pastor of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church that housed the clinic in Harlem) with co-founders Richard Wright (author of “Native Son” and former Harlem bureau chief for the Communist Party’s Daily Worker) and Fredric Wertham (German psychoanalyst who emigrated to the United States after the rise of the Nazi Party), The Lafargue Clinic was the first of its kind in Harlem: a pay-as-you-wish anti-racist mental health clinic, staffed largely by volunteers. Operating 1946-1958 out of the basement of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, The Lafargue Clinic pioneered a form of social medicine that linked patients' medical needs with the struggle for housing and economic justice. MADE IN HARLEM: THE LAFARGUE CLINIC REMIXED is a series of films, talks, and seminars on the legacy of this groundbreaking Harlem institution and its impact today on radical healthcare organizing, mutual aid, and collective wellbeing.

Curated by Kazembe Balagun
This series is made possible with the generous support of the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC)