IN CINEMA
Talking Drums: Tony Williams in Africa + La Herencia de un Tambor
Thursday, July 27 at 7PM
Tickets: $15 General Admission/$7 Reduced Price
Presented by Alfreda’s Cinema
Tony Williams in Africa
Willie Ruff, 1973, 38 min.
Ruff’s film about the American jazz drummer Tony Williams traveling to Senegal features Super 8 footage of Williams and African drummers, as well as a framing section with Ruff, Williams, and pianist Dwike Mitchell presenting the film on 16mm to local children. Restored by the Yale Film Archive.
La Herencia de un Tambor
Mario Vissepó, 1983, 29 min.
Documentary examining the Puerto Rican musical traditions of bomba and plena from a historical and humanistic perspective.
Post-screening discussion with Melissa Lyde and Warren Smith
Founded by Melissa Lyde in 2015, Alfreda’s Cinema screens films that tell Black stories that resonate with depth and love, the richness and culture of Black histories, dynamics, shapes, colors, and truths. Alfreda’s Cinema is working towards becoming the only micro-cinema in Brooklyn to operate under the leadership of a Black woman with a mission to screen films that celebrate Black and non-Black people of color. Help AC grow into a brick and mortar space here.
