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Wednesday, Apr 22, 2026
7 PM (52 mins)
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Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Hortense Spillers’s visit has been canceled.
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IntroductionStephen Best is Director of The Townsend Center for the Humanities and Professor & Rachael Anderson Stageberg Chair in English at UC Berkeley.
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, African American filmmakers, artists, and intellectuals reflect on the goals and ambitions of the civil rights movement and where things stand today. Arthur Jafa arranges the thoughts of this eloquent chorus into a profoundly moving score that also elucidates the origin of the concept of Blackness and the experience of being Black in the United States in the twenty-first century. Elliptical portraits of the speakers are combined with landscapes, street scenes, and archival images in this urgent elegy featuring Charles Burnett, Kathleen Cleaver, Fred Moten, and Kara Walker, among others.
FILM DETAILS
Cinematographer
- Arthur Jafa
- Malik Hassan Sayeed
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 52 mins
Source
- Gladstone Gallery
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