Film Venues Archives: Logan Center for the Arts

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A civil rights march. People standing arm in arm and walk in unity.

Rustin

  George C. Wolfe

  United States     99 minutes

Synopsis

The architect of 1963’s momentous March on Washington, Bayard Rustin was one of the greatest activists and organizers the world has ever known. He challenged authority, never apologized for who he was, what he believed, or who he desired. And he did not back down. He made history, and in turn, he was forgotten.

Directed by DGA Award and five-time Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe (Lackawanna Blues, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) and starring Emmy Award winner Colman Domingo in a towering and electrifying performance, Rustin shines a long overdue spotlight on the extraordinary man who, alongside giants like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (Aml Ameen), Ella Baker (Audra McDonald), Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Jeffrey Wright) and NAACP leader Roy Wilkins (Chris Rock), dared to imagine a different world, and inspired a movement in a march toward freedom.

 English 

Screenings & Events

Media

Film Credits

  •   Bruce Cohen, Tonia Davis, George C. Wolfe
  •   Julian Breece, Dustin Lance Black
  •   Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Aml Ameen, Gus Halper, CCH Pounder, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Johnny Ramey, Michael Potts, Lilli Kay, Jordan-Amanda Hall, Jakeem Powell, Grantham Coleman, Jamilah Rosemond, Jules Latimer, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper, Frank Harts, Kevin Mambo, Carra Patterson, Bill Irwin, Cotter Smith, Adrienne Warren, Jeffrey Wright, Audra McDonald
  •   Branford Marsalis
  •   Barack & Michelle Obama, Mark R. Wright, Alex G. Scott, David Permut, Daniel Sladek, Chris Taaffe
  •   Higher Ground, Bold Choices Production

Sponsors

Black Perspectives Program Sponsor

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Stamped from the Beginning

  Roger Ross Williams

  United States     94 minutes

Synopsis

Inspired by the book of the same name and narrated by its bestselling author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be An Antiracist), Stamped from the Beginning explores the roots of anti-Black racist beliefs and practices and how they’ve become enshrined in American culture. The film brings history to life through vivid animated sequences recounting the often little-known achievements of Black women thinkers such as 18th C. poet Phillis Wheatley, memoirist Harriet Jacobs, and journalist Ida B. Wells, while also exposing the whitewashed legacies of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.

Directed by Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams (The Apollo) and featuring such leading activists as Dr. Angela Davis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and Brittany Packnett Cunningham, the film is a bold and searing account of how past and present are entwined in an insidious mix of white supremacist and anti-Black ideologies.

 English 

Content Considerations
Racial violence
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Screenings & Events

Film Credits

  •   Alisa Payne, Roger Ross Williams, David Teague
  •   David Teague
  •   John Fisher, Francesca Sharper
  •   Wolfgang Held
  •   Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Dr. Angela Davis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Brittany Packnett Cunningham
  •   Nate Wonder, Roman GianArthur
  •   Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Geoff Martz, Mara Brock Akil, Susie Fitzgerald
  •   One Story Up Productions, Story27

Sponsors

Documentary Program Sponsors

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A woman wearing a white dress, cradles a baby in a diaper in a neighborhood surrounded by trees.

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

  Raven Jackson

  United States     92 minutes

Synopsis

A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman’s life in Mississippi, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer, and filmmaker Raven Jackson and producer Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) is a haunting and richly layered portrait, and a beautiful ode to the generations of people and places that shape us.

Sumptuously shot on 35mm film with evocative sound design and elliptical editing, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt unfolds like a dream, skipping around in time and seizing on key moments in its protagonist’s existence from infancy to adulthood. With a sensitive touch, each frame captures the fragile beauty of every passing second. What emerges is a stunningly tactile vision of family, womanhood, and the sights and sounds of the American South.

 English 

Screenings & Events

Film Credits

  •   Maria Altamirano, Adele Romanski, Barry Jenkins, Mark Ceryak
  •   Raven Jackson
  •   Lee Chatametikool
  •   Jomo Fray
  •   Charleen McClure, Reginald Helms, Jr., Moses Ingram, Zainab Jah, Sheila Atim, Chris Chalk
  •   Sasha Gordon, Victor Magro
  •   Pastel Productions, A24

Sponsors

International Competition Program Sponsor

John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation

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A man in a dark trench coat stands on a hill overlooking a vast landscape and open sky. A winged statue sits behind him.

Anselm

  Wim Wenders

  Germany     93 minutes

Synopsis

A majestic follow up to his 2011 tour-de-force Pina, Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary is another luminous portrait of an iconoclastic artist, Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative painters and sculptors of our time. Wenders traces Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his current home in France, connecting his life and controversial work over five decades in a mesmerizing visual experience.

While Wenders’ 6K high-resolution cameras track around monumental installations, sculptures, and enormous paintings, capturing in lucid detail all their mythic splendor and elemental power, the film also touches on the personal history of the man. Featuring stylized dramatic reenactments (with Wenders’ grandnephew Anton and Kiefer’s son Daniel portraying the artist), the film explores Anselm’s complicated relationship with his country’s Nazi past and his outsized impact on contemporary art.

  

 English, German with subtitles 

Screenings & Events

Film Credits

  •   Karsten Brünig
  •   Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Kiefer, Anton Wenders
  •   Road Movies

Sponsors

Documentary Program Sponsors

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Film Supporter

Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation