Media Gallery Schedule, Winter 2008

Programs

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

Nightjohn
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. Read more >