Black on Screen: The Legacy of Audre Lorde

IN PERSON

The Legacy of Audre Lorde is the final program in Stand Up, Fight Back! the third season of Black on Screen, guest-curated by Maysles Documentary Center Executive Director, Kazembe Balagun.This season chronicles histories of Black-American and Afro-diasporic coalition building and resistance movements on screen, narrated by intersectional voices.

This program celebrates the legacy of the late Black lesbian poet, essayist, and activist, Audre Lorde with a screening of Michelle Parkerson and Ada Gay Griffin’s intimate biopic of the writer, A Litany for Survival, The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995). Now newly restored by Third World Newsreel, Parkerson and Griffin chronicle Lorde’s childhood in Harlem through her battle with breast cancer across a collage of archival footage in this tender portrait of the artist, inflecting Lorde’s poetry in their cinematic language.

Michelle Parkerson will join Kazembe Balagun for a talkback following the screening.

Runtime: 80 mins

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

ACCESSIBLILITY

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