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

The first feature by award-winning filmmaker Zeinabu Irene Davis (CYCLES and A POWERFUL THANG), presents two unique African American love stories between a deaf woman and a hearing man. Inspired by a 1906 poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, this moving narrative shares their struggle to overcome racism, disability, and discrimination.

This unique drama explores aspects of Black culture in both turn of the century and present-day Chicago in two parallel love stories, both about the relationship between a deaf woman and a hearing man. The narrative revolves around two couples, Malindy & Arthur and Malaika & Nico, respectively taking place at the beginning and end of the twentieth century. Both pairs revel in the splendor of romance and a possible lifetime of commitment only to be forced to deal with the dreaded disease of their different times: tuberculosis and AIDS. This multi-layered film tackles various issues that arise in the relationships of these "mixed" couples. Capturing the silent film era, the film uses historic still photographs, ornate title cards, and a complex audio design to convey the stories of these two star-crossed lovers. Learn more >>

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)