The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to welcome filmmaker and artist Ja’Tovia Gary, a 2018-19 Film Study Center-Radcliffe Fellow to present an evening of radical Black film and cinema of resistance pairing a selection of her recent films together with Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo’s extraordinary musical cri de coeur: West Indies.

West Indies

Directed by Med Hondo. With Robert Liensol, Roland Bertin, Hélène Vincent
France/Algeria/Mauritania 1979, 35mm, color, 113 min. French with English subtitles

Preceded by

An Ecstatic Experience

Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary
US 2015, digital video, color & b/w, 6 min

Giverny I (Négresse Impériale)

Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary
US 2017, digital video, color, 6 min