SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“[T]he film feels like more than just an artifact of an important historical period or a snapshot of an influential literary figure. It’s a living document, providing a ground-level look at the struggle against white supremacy from those who lived through some of its darkest hours.”
92 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley. In English. DCP.
James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham, and Atlanta, to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with 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 the children” and those “who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road.”