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Tune in to e-flux Film for the repeat screenings and wrap of Looking up, an online program of films and texts put together by artist Jorge Jácome as the twelfth edition of Artist Cinemas.

The LFF’s ‘Experimenta’ programme formed its own kind of micro avant-garde festival this year, featuring an Afro-futurist cyber-musical and a film that exists only as one single 35mm print.

We’re thrilled to be celebrating Black History Month on the Criterion Channel with a lineup that salutes African American filmmaking pioneers like Gordon Parks and Madeline Anderson, spotlights the brilliant career of actor and activist Ruby Dee, presents newly restored works by William Greaves and Bill Duke, and offers introductions to contemporary Black directors like Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and Akosua Adoma Owusu. That’s just the beginning—we’ve also got Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, a new installment of Adventures in Moviegoing with Wyatt Cenac, and much more—check out the full ca...

Growing up, Leila Weefur knew of Frederick Douglass, the writer, activist, and former slave turned abolitionist.  “As a child, my mother put me in an all-Black elementary school in Oakland,” Weefur, a UC Berkeley lecturer and a member of artist network The Black Aesthetic said.  “In kindergarten we were learning to read on [Douglass’] slave narratives. We recited the Black National Anthem every morning and we were practicing Kwanzaa principles. It was a very Black cultural experience.” As part of a larger exhibition inspired by the life of Douglass, Weefur has curated a program of...