Event Details
The Forum is pleased to present Films at The Forum, the latest public program bringing free movie screenings to The Forum on a monthly basis. This February, in honor of Black History Month, is a presentation of a special screening of Black is/Black Ain't.
Film Details
Made with an urgency imparted by the knowledge that he was nearing the end of his life, Marlon Riggs’s final film—completed by a group of his devoted collaborators after his death of AIDS-related illnesses—is a wide-ranging consideration of a question that had long been central to his work: What does it mean to be Black?
Location
The Forum at Columbia University
601 West 125th Street
New York, NY 10027
About The Event
The Forum is pleased to present Films at The Forum, their latest public program bringing free movie screenings to The Forum on a monthly basis. This February, in honor of Black History Month, is a presentation of Black is/Black Ain’t (1994).
Made with an urgency imparted by the knowledge that he was nearing the end of his life, Marlon Riggs’s final film—completed by a group of his devoted collaborators after his death of AIDS-related illnesses—is a wide-ranging consideration of a question that had long been central to his work: What does it mean to be Black?
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Image: Film still from Black is/Black Ain’t