James Earl Jones Remembered with Photographs by Hugh Bell
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Two Warren Sonbert Films Screen in "The Motown Sound and the Queer Underground," curated by GME associate Matt McKinzie
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On Friday, August 30th, at 7:30pm, Warren Sonbert’s first two films AMPHETAMINE (1966) and WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? (1966) will screen at Spectacle Theater (124 S. 3rd St.) in the program The Motown Sound and the Queer Underground, curated by GME associate Matt McKinzie as part of the series Sonic Visions: Experiments in Cinema and Music, presented by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative. Sonbert’s Estate has previously named GME as the custodian of his legacy, and since the artist’s untimely passing, GME has worked on an extensive project to preserve, distribute, and curate career retrospectives of his films on an international basis, as well as publish original documents from the paper archive of his writings.
Read MoreGME Celebrates the Life of James Baldwin On the Centennial Celebration of His Birth
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On the occasion of the centennial celebration of writer and activist James Baldwin’s birth, GME pays tribute to his life, body of work, and lasting cultural impact with this photograph, taken by Raimondo Borea in 1979. An integral figure of both the civil rights and gay liberation movements of the 1960s and ‘70s, Baldwin — a Black, gay man — unabashedly tackled themes of racial inequality, masculinity, sexuality, and class in his writings, many of which are now heralded as significant 20th century American works.
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