A PROGRAM OF LOGAN CENTER’S DIGITAL STORYTELLING INITIATIVE

This film series happens on Sundays, Jul 9-Aug 27, 1-4pm / Screening Room
Seating is limited; please RSVP

A rediscovered masterpiece, director Larry Clark’s As Above, So Below comprises a powerful political and social critique in its portrayal of Black insurgency.  The film opens in 1945 with a young boy playing in his Chicago neighborhood and then follows the adult Jita-Hadi as a returning Marine with heightened political consciousness.  Like The Spook Who Sat By the Door and Gordon’s War, As Above, So Below imagines a post-Watts rebellion state of siege and an organized Black underground plotting revolution.  With sound excerpts from the 1968 HUAC report "Guerrilla Warfare Advocates in the United States," As Above, So Below is one of the more politically radical films of the L.A. Rebellion. —Allyson Nadia Field, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, Affiliated Faculty of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), The University of Chicago

Screening Freedom Schedule
Seating is limited; please RSVP

• Sun, Jul 9:
  Summer Of Soul (…or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Questlove, 2021) + SSHMP Selections

• Sun, Jul 16:
  The Cry Of Jazz (Edward Bland, 1959) + Remembrance: A Portrait Study (Edward Owens, 1959) + SSHMP Selections

• Sun, Jul 23:
  The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)

• Sun, Jul 30:
  As Above, So Below (Larry Clark, 1973)

• Sun, Aug 6:
  Cane River (Horace B. Jenkins, 1982)

• Sun, Aug 13:
  Compensation (Zeinabu Irene Davis, 1999)

• Sun, Aug 20:
  The African Desperate (Martine Syms, 2022)

• Sun, Aug 27:
  Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1993)