The 2020 Best of BAMkids Film Festival presents a program of charming shorts.
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The Bittersweet Nostalgia of Watching Basquiat in Downtown 81
A time capsule that holds the legendary artist in immortal youth, the cult classic also preserves a certain New York, which has now changed beyond recognition.
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Revealing Lost Archives of Black Cinema and Creating New Ones
Hyperallergic talks to director Garrett Bradley about gaps in film preservation, her new film America, and the retrospective it’s a part of at BAM.
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Unpacking Mentorship and Masculinity in Two Portraits of Fatherhood
Screening as part of BAM’s annual “Contemporary Arab Cinema” showcase, Of Fathers and Sons and Fatwa offer starkly different meditations on the radicalization of young men.
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Black American Cinema of the ’90s Was Filled with Promise
Revisiting the movies made by Black American filmmakers, which could only really be fully appreciated decades later.
