Film Screening : Black Has Always Been Beautiful & From These Roots

Join South Side Projections and Blanc Gallery for a screening of two films about the Harlem Renaissance and photographer James Van Der Zee. Patric McCoy, the founder of Diasporal Rhythms, will introduce the film and lead discussion afterward. Black Has Always Been Beautiful is a 1971 portrait of famed Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee. Van Der Zee discusses his technique and his history, and we witness his process as he photographs a young black woman. William Greaves’s 1974 film From These Roots uses period photographs to explore the extraordinary artistic, cultural and political flowering that characterized the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. 45 minutes total, 16mm prints.