Double Bill: Baadasssss Cinema + Shaft
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Isaac Julien In Context
On the occasion of Isaac Julien's exhibition What Freedom Is To Me at Bonnefanten, Lumière is screening five films and documentaries that provide context to the work of the globally celebrated British artist.
Special: series
Included in this series are three of Julien's most important works: LOOKING FOR LANGSTON, which is also showing at Bonnefanten, YOUNG SOUL REBELS, an early film in which Julien portrays the interaction between British cultural youth movements of the late seventies and BAADAAASSS CINEMA. The latter documentary is about Blaxploitation, the first film genre in which black people played leading roles. Together with BAADASSSSS CINEMA, the Blaxploitation classic SHAFT will be shown. The series opens with the biographical documentary THE STUART HALL PROJECT, about the academic and writer Stuart Hall, whose work greatly influenced Isaac's oeuvre. They also worked together regularly. Las but not least, the classic PARIS IS BURNING will be screened on the eve of the exhibition's finissage at Bonnefanten, mid August. PARIS IS BURNING is an influential portrait of the ballroom culture and African-American and Latino queer community in the eighties in New York. Along with Isaac's work, the documentary embodies a wave of films that offered a vibrant, new black queer aesthetic at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
This program was created in collaboration with Bonnefanten.
