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DESCRIPTION:Phyllis Wattis Theater\nThursday, July 16, 2009, 7:00 p.m.\nSaturday, July 
 18, 2009, 3:00 p.m. \n\nSeven Songs for Malcolm X\nJohn Akomfrah, 1993, 52 
 min., 16mm\n\nThe Intolerable Burden\nChea Prince, 2003, 56 min., 
 video\n\nPerfect Film\nKen Jacobs, 1986, 22 min., 16mm\n\nIn Seven Songs 
 for Malcolm X, archival footage is combined with interviews and 
 re-creations to evoke the impact of Malcolm X on American politics and 
 culture. The film includes interviews with Spike Lee; Malcolm X's wife, 
 Betty Shabazz; and essayist Greg Tate, with narration by novelist Toni Cade 
 Bambara.\n\nIn response to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the town of Drew, 
 Mississippi, created a "freedom of choice" plan for its public schools — 
 with the certainty that no African Americans would send their children to 
 the extant all-white schools. Matthew and Mae Bertha Carter, sharecroppers 
 and parents of 13 children, broke with this expectation and sent their 
 seven youngest into the formerly segregated system. The Intolerable Burden, 
 partially based on producer Constance Curry's 1995 book Silver Rights, 
 follows the course of the Carters' singular decision.\n\nA pioneer of 
 experimental cinema and structuralist film, Jacobs's Perfect Film is a 
 fortuitous find. Purchasing a reel of film from a bin in lower Manhattan, 
 Jacobs discovered discarded news footage about Malcolm X's assassination. 
 Save for boosted sound in the second half, the footage remains as Jacobs 
 discovered it: raw evidence of an historical moment.\n\nPart of Richard 
 Avedon: Notes on "Nothing Personal".\n\n\n$5 general; free for SFMOMA 
 members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be 
 picked up in the Haas Atrium). Double features: films offered on the same 
 date are included in one ticket.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/16/18608366.php
SUMMARY:SFMOMA Film Series presents Seven Songs for Malcolm X
LOCATION:SFMOMA\n151 Third St
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/16/18608366.php
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