Screening Acts: Body and Soul (1925)
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, July 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
Screening Acts presents: Body and Soul, directed by Oscar Micheaux (1925, 102m) | Sunday July 21, 1-4 pm, Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201
This July and August, join us for a free film series celebrating Black independent cinema, and exploring the roles we negotiate on and off screen. Some come in and out of roles with ease, others search for a role that feels right. Some are denied the role they desire, and others struggle to slip free of a role they’ve been pressured into playing. Some pronounce themselves boldly and directly, while others remain evasive and mercurial. Between chameleons and cowboys, sermons and soliloquies, intimacy and deception, Screening Acts explores the politics of performance through six Black independent films that collectively ask: if it’s all an act, what role will you play?
A catered, group discussion will follow each screening. Free and open to all!
Screening Acts: Film + Discussion Series | Sundays, July 14 – August 18, 1 – 4 PM | Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201
Upcoming Screenings:
7/28: Buck and the Preacher (Sidney Poitier, 1972)
8/4: Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
8/11: Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (Leslie Harris, 1992)
8/18: Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins, 1982)
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