May 12th 2024

Baldwin’s N- (1968) // Perfect Image? (1988)

@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago

1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Sunday, May 12th, at 4PM

Baldwin’s N- (1968) // Perfect Image? (1988)
Horace Ové // Maureen Blackwood · 46m // 31m · DCP // Digital

Two short documentaries released twenty years apart from one another, yet bound by provocative explorations of identity in the U.S. and Britain. Baldwin’s N-follows the titular academic James Baldwin and Dick Gregory as they address young West Indian academics organizing in Britain. Perfect Image? questions notions of beauty and self-worth among Black British women in the 1980s.

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