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# Now Is the Perfect Time to Learn About William Greaves
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/william-greaves-website-resources/
- Published: 2020-10-06T16:40:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:06:27.000Z
- Description: A new website dedicated to the pioneering Black filmmaker collates hundreds of valuable resources about his work.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: In Brief, Documentary, experimental film, William Greaves, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:08 (2019, 2020, part 3)

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An active filmmaker for nearly 50 years before his death in 2014, William Greaves was continually at the forefront of Black independent directors in the US. He was a vital contributor to the long-running public affairs show *Black Journal (*episodes of which are [archived online](https://americanarchive.org/special%5Fcollections/black-journal?ref=hyperallergic.com)), and directed numerous short and feature documentaries about the Civil Rights Movement and Black American life. He is perhaps best-known today for his landmark experimental film [*Symbiopscyhotaxiplasm*](https://hyperallergic.com/427776/william-greaves-symbiopsychotaxiplasm-take-one/), a dizzying nesting doll of fiction and nonfiction elements.

Recently, under the supervision of Greaves’s widow Louise and avant-garde filmmaker [Su Friedrich](http://www.sufriedrich.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), a new [website dedicated to his work](http://www.williamgreaves.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) has launched. An incredibly thorough resource, the site features not merely biographical information about Greaves and a catalog of his *oeuvre*, but [hundreds of reviews and articles](http://www.williamgreaves.com/reviews-and-articles/?ref=hyperallergic.com) about him and his work. There is also [a comprehensive guide on how to purchase or stream his films](http://www.williamgreaves.com/purchase-films/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which is extremely helpful since many of them are otherwise difficult to find.

All this comes along with the news that Kino Lorber will be distributing a restoration of Greaves’s 1972 documentary [*Nationtime*](https://www.kinolorber.com/film/nationtime?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.* Narrated by Sidney Poitier, it follows the historic [National Black Political Convention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FBlack%5FPolitical%5FConvention?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Gary, Indiana that year. The film was produced for broadcast but deemed “too radical” upon its original release, and for decades has only been available in an edited 60-minute version. The 4K restoration by IndieCollect adds the 20 minutes of excised footage. The film will be released in virtual cinemas on October 23.