A double screening presented by the National Museum of the Aftermath.
This summer, the National Museum of the Aftermath is presenting a four night film screening series. Join us for the penultimate screening of the season, featuring Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harolds' Foosball: U. of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 1976 (2013) and Andrea Fraser's This meeting is being recorded (2022).
Foosball: U. of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 1976
11m
Based on a photograph taken in the mid 1970s of two African Americans playing foosball. For more than a decade, filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson and historian Claudrena N. Harold have collaborated on a series of poetic films that examine Black life at the University of Virginia (UVA). Though individually distinct in their formal qualities and thematic focus, these films reflect Everson’s and Harold’s deep interest in the interiority of Black life, particularly those formal and informal spaces where African Americans communed, hobnobbed, prayed, loved, quarreled, reconciled, and moved on. Within these communal spaces, which range from the college dormitory to the local bar, the directors engage the epic and the quotidian, the sacred and the profane, the individual and the collective.
This meeting is being recorded
99m
A performance-based video exploring formations of race, gender, and age in an intergenerational group of seven self-identified white women. Based on recordings of six 90-minute meetings of a group convened by Fraser in fall 2020, the women attempt to apply psychoanalytic group relations methods to the study of unconscious racism and their roles in white supremacy, starting with their own conflicts. Fraser performs all seven women, including herself. Performing directly to the camera, Fraser invites the viewer to join the complex dynamics of identification, othering, competition, and longing as group members grapple with their privilege and sense of vulnerability as white women while working to take back projections and own unwanted parts of themselves.
This series is free and no registration required, seating is first come first served.
Join us for the upcoming screenings in the series:
July 14, 6-8pm: Reginald Alan Hudlin's Space Traders + William Greaves' Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
