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DATE: Tuesday, March 11
TIME: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
LOCATION: Plaza Theatre
PRICE: $18
ATLFS Member discounts applied at checkout
Starting this February, ATLFS presents NOIRE - A series of screenings devoted to new and classic films by Black filmmakers. We’re rounding out the series on March 11th, with the exciting debut feature JIMMY (Telluride/ NYFF 2024), with director Yashaddai Owens in attendance.
Film Synopsis: In November 1948, James Baldwin left New York and, thanks to a fellowship grant, relocated to Paris. The 24-year-old writer would spend most of the next decade there, escaping American racism and his own social alienation, ensconcing himself in the city’s Algerian quarters and the community of Left Bank artists in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and writing his first books. In his first feature, photographer and filmmaker Yashaddai Owens imagines Baldwin’s first experiences in Paris in impressionistic fashion. Shooting in black-and-white on 16mm film, Owens conveys a subjective feeling of wonder and freedom as Baldwin (Benny O. Arthur) observes and absorbs his new environment, and experiences newfound individuality and erotic liberation. A work of exhilaration, set to a lush original score by Paco Andreo, Jimmy is a portrait of the artist reconnecting with the world.
This series kicks off February 25th with a members-only early look at A24's ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL, the new film by director Rungano Nyoni (winner of the Cannes Camera D'or for her first feature I AM NOT A WITCH). We’ll round out the series on March 11th, with the exciting debut feature JIMMY (Telluride/ NYFF 2024), with director Yashaddai Owens in attendance.
