LIMITED SERIES REGENERATION,
REMIXED
JUL 6–16, 2023
Nope Thu, Jul 6 | 7:30pm | DGT
In celebration of the Academy Museum’s landmark exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971 —ahead of its closing date of July 16, 2023—we take another look back at the period covered in the exhibition, this time using a contemporary lens. Regeneration, Remixed is a dialogue between living Black filmmakers and the complicated cultural and cinematic legacies they face. Whether through a reclamation of archival footage, a reimagining of an iconic golden age genre, or the contrast of a new musical mediation, the artists of Regeneration, Remixed offer new visions and ideas of what Black cinema was and can be. This series also includes new scores by composers Renée Baker and Kathryn Bostic of race films directed by Oscar Micheaux and Richard E. Norman, respectively.
Programmed and notes by K.J. Relth-Miller and Bernardo Rondeau.
Nope on 70mm Thu, Jul 6 | 7:30pm | DGT
iconic Blaxploitation heroine Foxy Brown as she confidently, accusatorily, and defiantly gazes back at the audience. Using optical printing and a soundscape of repetition employed to haunting results, Christopher Harris’s powerful short recontextualizes historic moments of Black rebellion into a radically experimental reclamation of power. DIRECTED BY: Christopher Harris. 2004. 14 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP. Restored by Canyon Cinema and the Academy Film Archive. DCP courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Ethnic Notions Marlon Riggs’s deeply researched and deeply felt documentary illuminates how a centuries-old lineage of dehumanizing caricatures of Black people—seen everywhere from children’s books to films to household products—are tools of white supremacy. Riggs’s razor- sharp analysis and powerfully curated imagery gracefully dismantles centuries of American racial mythologies. Narrated by actor Esther Rolle and featuring Leni Sloan as Bert Williams, Ethnic Notions is an essential companion piece to the museum’s Regeneration exhibition. DIRECTED BY: Marlon Riggs. 1986. 58 min. USA. Color. English. DCP.
Academy Award–nominated writer-director Jordan Peele’s third film is a singular blend of creature feature and Western noir that betrays its adverse one-word title. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer play sparring siblings whose family’s horse ranch in remote Agua Dulce has been supplying animals for pictures since the silent era. But the sudden and strange death of patriarch Keith David finds the duo closely encountering all kinds of strange phenomena. A sci-fi cowboy saga against a backdrop of American popular culture—sitcoms, Mad magazine, theme parks, and band T-shirts— Nope doesn’t just evoke the Black Western, it completely reinvents it. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Jordan Peele. WITH: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Steven Yeun. 2022. 130 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 70mm.
Reckless Eyeballing with Ethnic Notions Fri, Jul 7 | 2pm | TMT
Reckless Eyeballing This evocative title, taken from a Jim Crow-era law prohibiting a Black man from so much as gazing at a white woman, can also be ironically applied to the gaze emanating from the screen—that of Pam Grier as the
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