Towards a Black Testimony

TOWARDS A BLACK TESTIMONY
Friday, November 7, 6:00pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor

Borrowing its subtitle from We Insist!, the 1960 jazz album by drummer Max Roach and vocalist Abbey Lincoln, Towards A Black Testimony: Prayer/Protest/Peace weaves texts, voices, archival footage and contemporary imagery into a collective portrait of Black defiance. Across three acts of a visual and sonic collage, Languid Hands meditate on the precariousness of Black life, mobilizing Black testimony to confront the limitations of law and legibility in testifying to the unseen and the unheard. 

The screening will be followed by an extended conversation about the film and Black aesthetic practices of refusal with  Imani Mason Jordan (Languid Hands), writer/film programmer Yasmina Price, and more!

This program is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History and the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies.

Co-presented by NYU's Center for Media, Culture and History's WORLD RECORDS.

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