Isaac Julien and the Sankofa Film and Video Collective

A programmatic series of three works, developed in concert with artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, from the Sankofa Film and Video Collective will be screened in-person at Penn Live Arts at the Annenberg Center. Each screening will be accompanied by a conversation between a scholar and artist or filmmaker providing context and building on the works presented.

Curated by Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Live Arts at the Annenberg Center, and BlackStar Projects.

This series is organized in conjunction with multiple cultural partners across Philadelphia including the Barnes Foundation; BlackStar Projects; and The Fabric Workshop and Museum on the occasion of the Barnes Foundation’s centennial and newly commissioned film installation, Once Again…(Statues Never Die) on view June 19 – September 4, 2022.

Looking for Langston (1989, 45 min)
June 13, 2022
Zellerbach Theater, Penn Live Arts, Annenberg Center
Guest speakers in conversation: Isaac Julien, Artist and Filmmaker; Kaja Silverman, Katherine Stein Sachs CW’69 and Keith L. Sachs W’67 Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania; and Ja’Tovia Gary, Artist and Filmmaker.

Territories (1984, 25 min) and Who Killed Colin Roach (1983, 34 min)
July 11, 2022
Zellerbach Theater, Penn Live Arts, Annenberg Center
Guest speakers in conversation: Maori Karmael Holmes, CEO & Artistic Director of BlackStar Projects & Thomas Allen Harris, Senior Lecturer, African American Studies & Film and Media Studies, Yale University.

The Passion of Remembrance (1986, 80 min), newly restored and premiering as a 4K version
August 3, 2022
In conjunction with the BlackStar Film Festival
Zellerbach Theater, Penn Live Arts, Annenberg Center
Guest speakers in conversation: Karen Alexander, writer, educator and freelance curator, & Louis Massiah, Documentary Filmmaker and Founder/Director of Scribe Video Center.