Film

Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a groundbreaking film in the history of African American cinema.  It tells of a […]

Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Cleopatra Jones tells of a federal super-agent (Tamara Dobson) who is a martial arts expert armed with intellect and a hot-rod sports car.  The film follows her on the trail of drug kingpins, specifically the notorious "Mommy" (Shelley Winters).  Of the period's many blaxploitation […]

Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Black Girl explores the complex dynamics and devastating legacy of colonialism.  It centers on a young Senegalese woman who moves from Dakar to France to work for a rich white couple. Directed by father of African cinema Ousmane Sembène, Black Girl is the first […]

Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer increasingly detached from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Directed by Charles Burnett, the film was shot on 16mm black-and-white […]

In conjunction with our exhibition, Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists, NAM will screen several short films* by influential women directors, including Maya Deren, Germaine Dulac, and Joyce Wieland. Free and […]

Drop by Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center for a screening of Sergei Eisenstein's "Que Viva Mexico" (1931) with an introduction by Fabiola Ramirez Gutierrez, PhD Candidate at the Stone […]

Join us for a free screening of “All On A Mardi Gras Day,” directed by Royce Osborn, a prominent filmmaker known for his work chronicling African American cultural celebrations in New Orleans.

Drop by Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center at Tulane University for a free screening of two films documenting the treatment of formerly and currently incarcerated women. "Sin by […]

Drop by Freeman Auditorium for a free screening of The House I Live In. Filmed in more than twenty states, the film captures heart-wrenching stories of those on the front […]

Drop by Freeman Auditorium for a screening of the award-winning film If Beale Street Could Talk based on James Baldwin's book of the same name.