Media Gallery Schedule, Fall 2007

Programs

We inaugurate the second year of the Museum’s New Media Gallery, thanks to the sponsorship of Crutchfield and the Virginia Film Festival.

Films of Peter Whitehead
July 3 – September 30

Four counter-culture films made in the 1960s are featured. Read more >

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Within Our Gates
October 3 – November 2, 1 and 3 pm

African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux made this 1920 silent film as a response to D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation and to oppose any defense of the Klan and lynching. The film is shown in support of the Museum’s program Forming American Identities: Our Southern Legacy and scheduled in conjunction with the colloquium on September 30, 5:30 pm, in the Museum, on “Cinematic Representations” with presenters Carmenita Higginbotham, assistant professor, McIntire Department of Art, and Jane Gaines, professor, Department of English, Duke University. Read more >

The Short Films of Alan Berliner
November 3 – December 23

Berliner, whose films will be featured in this year’s Virginia Film Festival, is known primarily for his experimental variations on the “home movie.” Read more >