Khalik Allah’s Black Mother (2018, 77 mins.)

self-portrait of the filmmaker

Khalik Allah’s Black Mother (2018, 77 mins.)

Friday, October 4, 6:00 pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor

The screening will be followed by a Q and A with the film's director, cinematographer, editor and co-producer Khalik Allah, and filmmakers and NYU Undergraduate Film and TV professors Shevaun Mizrahi and Alfonso Morgan-Terrero. 

Khalik Allah is a New York–based photographer and filmmaker who describes his work as "Camera Ministry."  His film credits include Field Niggas (2015) and Black Mother (2018), which had its New York premiere at MoMA and the Lincoln Center. Allah’s first book of photography, Souls Against the Concrete, was published by University of Texas Press in 2017.

Thank you to NYU’s Undergraduate Film and Television department, NYU’s Migration Network, NYU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs (CMEP) for co-sponsoring this event.

This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU guests must present their NYU ID.