Special
Event
Monday February
21 at 6:00pm
Remembering Malcolm: An Evening
With Amiri Baraka
To mark the 40th anniversary of the death
of Malcolm X, Film
@ International House
is pleased to present the rarely screened, Academy Award nominated,
documentary Malcolm X by Arnold Perl. Following the
film, reknowned dramatist, essayist and poet Amiri Baraka joins
us to discuss Malcolm's enduring legacy.
Malcolm X
dir. Arnold Perl, USA, 1972, 35mm, 91 mins, color and
b/w
 Co-written
with James Baldwin and Alex Haley, Arnold Perl's documentary has
the distinction of being the first feature length
film made about the
life of Malcolm X. Narrated by Ossie Davis, this remarkable
portrait penetrates the stereotyped image of the controversial
figure to reveal the sensitive, proud, highly intelligent man
who became the most dynamic leader in America’s Black cultural
and political revolution. Compiled from hours of footage, the
film traces Malcolm's turbulent life from hoodlum, thief, dope
peddler and pimp to his conversion to Elijah Muhammad's Nation
of Islam, his dramatic rise to leadership in the Black community,
his break with Elijah Muhammad, his pilgrimage to Mecca and
his assassination in Harlem.
followed at 8:00pm by
An
Evening with Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka - dramatist,
poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is perhaps the
preeminent African-American literary figure of our time. Born
LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey in 1934, Amiri Baraka moved
to New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s and became a
seminal figure in the Beat movement, editing the avant-garde
literary journals Yugen and Floating Bear,
and publishing his
first collection
of poems, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note.
His play Dutchman was produced in 1964 and won an
Obie. Since 1965, in the wake of the assassination of Malcolm
X, Baraka recommitted his life and work to the African-American
community through the Black Arts Repertory Theater School
and other cultural and political activities.
Mr. Baraka will join
us to present new poetry and discuss the global influence
of Malcolm X and the profound
impact his murder has had on the Black Power Movement.
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