{"id":10682,"date":"2022-02-23T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T20:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?p=10682"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:44:20","slug":"a-word-from-our-programmer-2-23-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/a-word-from-our-programmer-2-23-22\/","title":{"rendered":"A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 2\/23\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greetings cinema friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/series\/82\" target=\"_blank\">Black Independents Vol II<\/a><em>\u2014<\/em>our yearly survey of the varied waves of Black independent American cinema\u2014continues at the Cinema with Ephraim Asili\u2019s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/2045\" target=\"_blank\">The Inheritance<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asili\u2019s 2020 feature debut is a radical cinematic experiment weaving scripted and improvised scenes from within a West Philadelphia Black artist and activist collective with documentary recollections of the notorious 1985 police bombing of the MOVE liberation group\u2014combining politics, philosophy, cinematic theory, and humor to poetic effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Inheritance_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10686\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The film\u2019s bright color palette and focus on revolutionary education may bring to mind Jean-Luc Godard in the late-1960s (<em>La Chinoise&nbsp;<\/em>or&nbsp;<em>Sympathy for the Devil<\/em>&nbsp;in particular), but Asili has developed a distinct film language over the course of a decade. His&nbsp;<em>Diaspora Suite&nbsp;<\/em>(2010\u20132017), a collection of five short documentaries, forges Asili\u2019s geo-politics of global pan-African identity, but it is&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/2045\" target=\"_blank\">The Inheritance<\/a>&nbsp;that is most concerned with the African diaspora in America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/nationtime-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10683\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The series concludes on Monday evening with William Greaves\u2019&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/2046\" target=\"_blank\">Nationtime<\/a>. Best known for his 1968 avant-garde docufiction&nbsp;<em>Symbiopsychotaxisplasm<\/em>, Greaves directed over 100 documentaries, many focused on African American history and politics.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/2046\" target=\"_blank\">Nationtime<\/a>&nbsp;is a report on the first National Black Political Convention in Gary Indiana in 1972, originally intended for television broadcast. The proceedings brought together Black voices from across the political spectrum\u2014among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, and Dr. Betty Shabazz\u2014and narrated by Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the film was deemed too militant and never aired, and only circulated in a significantly edited bootleg. With funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/2046\" target=\"_blank\">Nationtime<\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em>has finally been restored in 4K to its full 80 minute running time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forward,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings cinema friends, Tonight,&nbsp;Black Independents Vol II\u2014our yearly survey of the varied waves of Black independent American cinema\u2014continues at the Cinema with Ephraim Asili\u2019s&nbsp;The Inheritance.&nbsp; Asili\u2019s 2020 feature debut is a radical cinematic experiment weaving scripted and improvised scenes from within a West Philadelphia Black artist and activist collective with documentary recollections of the notorious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,53],"tags":[158,166,167,168,169],"class_list":["post-10682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-word-from","category-news1","tag-black-independents","tag-ephraim-asili","tag-nationtime","tag-the-inheritance","tag-william-greaves"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10779,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions\/10779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}