FILM SCREENING | BLACK LIBERATION: THE SILENT REVOLUTION

Join MoCADA for a free community screening of an experimental art and political documentary Black Liberation: The Silent Revolution, presented by MoCADA and MUBI.

First released in 1967 to much controversy (and banned by select theaters), Black Liberation: The Silent Revolution (1967; 38 minutes; United States) is an artistic documentary directed by German filmmaker Edouard de Laurot, which offers a cinematic pamphlet that transforms New York into a city besieged by revolt, a field of maneuvers belonging to the urban guerrilla, and a training camp for the Black Panthers.

This screening will be followed by a panel discussion on creating safe spaces for us and by us, revolution, liberation, and the power of art and coalition building in this moment. Join our panelists as they build upon our generative practices of reclamation, including Shellyne Rodriguez, Artist, educator, writer, and community; Marjua Estevez, culture writer and content producer, and Cresa Pugh, Assistant Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research.