Come out and join M. Lamar as he launches our special Summer Series BLACK SUMMER NIGHTS, guest curated by filmmaker Stephen Winter and poet Pamela Sneed.
WHAT: M. Lamar presents LOOKING FOR LANGSTON & Isaac Julien Shorts
WHEN: Monday, May 11, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
LOOKING FOR LANGSTON & Isaac Julien Shorts
1989. UK. 45 min. Directed by Isaac Julien.
We are thrilled to kick off BLACK SUMMER NIGHTS with this Teddy Award-winning film, which became a cult hit thanks t...
Come out and join M. Lamar as he launches our special Summer Series BLACK SUMMER NIGHTS, guest curated by filmmaker Stephen Winter and poet Pamela Sneed.
WHAT: M. Lamar presents LOOKING FOR LANGSTON & Isaac Julien Shorts
WHEN: Monday, May 11, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
LOOKING FOR LANGSTON & Isaac Julien Shorts
1989. UK. 45 min. Directed by Isaac Julien.
We are thrilled to kick off BLACK SUMMER NIGHTS with this Teddy Award-winning film, which became a cult hit thanks to director Isaac Julien’s sensual and dreamlike portrait of the gay poet Langston Hughes and his affairs during the Harlem Renaissance. For our guest host tonight, the musician and performance artist M. Lamar, whose work regularly explores black history and sexuality, the power of this and other Julien films is seeing, “Black men, black beauty and black homosexuality on screen as it has never been seen before or since.” He continues, “In the wake of Ferguson I would love for us to look at this film and think about how black men are seen in our culture and how this film disrupts that white supremacist view.”
As always, our screening will be followed by drinks and discussion at Julius Bar (159 West 10th St. at Waverly), the oldest gay bar in New York City!
M. LAMAR
M. Lamar works across opera, metal, performance, video, and sculpture to craft sprawling narratives of racial and sexual transformation. Lamar holds a BFA from SFAI and attended the Yale School of Art, sculpture program, before dropping out to pursue music. Lamar’s work has been presented internationally, most recently at Participant Inc., New York; New Museum, New York; Södra Teatern, Stockholm; Warehouse9, Copenhagen; WWDIS Fest, Gothenburg and Stockholm; The International Theater Festival, Donzdorf, Germany; Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York; Performance Space 122, New York; and African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco; among others. Lamar has had many years of classical vocal study with Ira Siff, among others; and is a recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund Grant 2013–14 and a Harpo Foundation grant 2014-15.
http://www.mlamar.com/
