Black History Month is coming to an end, but our celebration of 100 Years Of Black Cinema is just warming up! Join us with Black World Cinema, a showcase of seldom seen classic features and new films from around the world, as history is made on the big screen!
WITHIN OUR GATES
USA/1920/90 minutes/Drama
Written, Directed and Produced by Oscar Micheaux
Showing: Thursday, February 25, 2009, 7PM
ICE Theaters Chatham 14
210 87th Street
Chicago, IL
Recognized as the oldest known surviving film by an African-American director, “Within Our Gates” is a silent race film that dramatically depicts the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the “New Negro”.
You’ve seen this film in parts here earlier this month, but now you can see it on the big screen. For many, this is the first time this film will ever be seen, so if you’re in the Chicago area, don’t MISS this!
story focuses on an African-American woman who goes North in an effort to help a minister in the Deep South raise money to keep a school open for poor Black children. Her romance with a black doctor eventually leads to revelations about her family’s past that expose the racial skeletons in America’s closet, most famously through the film’s depiction of the injustice of lynching.
Post-Film Panel Discussion – Moderator: Salim Muwakki, WVON;
Panelists: Timuel Black, Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the City Colleges of Chicago; Nina Cartier, Doctoral Candidate at Northwestern University; and Floyd Webb, filmmaker/producer
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