New Media Gallery, Winter 2008

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Nightjohn
March 4 – April 14

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New Media Gallery Programs

Nightjohn
by Charles Burnett
January 17 – March 3, 1 and 3 pm

Just as Oscar Micheaux is considered the greatest black filmmaker of the silent era, many now consider Charles Burnett America's greatest living black director. His masterpiece, Killer of Sheep, was recently revived and screened at the Virginia Film Festival, but this film about slavery, made in 1996 for the Disney Channel, has yet to receive the recognition it deserves. The film tells the story of Sarny (Allison Jones), a young house slave on a cotton plantation, who is taught to read by Nightjohn (Carl Lumbly), a slave who escaped to the north but eventually returned to captivity to teach others what he had learned and experienced.

March 4 – April 14
Stay tuned for our March 4 – April 14 program announcement.