A special screening of Larry Clark's 1977 film PASSING THROUGH, followed by a conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker and critic, screenwriter and educator Josslyn Luckett. Presented in collaboration with Film Quarterly
PASSING THROUGH
Larry Clark
US 1977
FEATURING
Nathaniel Taylor, Clarence Muse, Pamela Jones, Johnny Weathers, and the music of Eric Dolphy, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sun Ra and live performances by Horace Tapscott's Pan African People's Arkestra.
PASSING THROUGH theorizes that jazz is one of the purest expressions of African American culture, embodying the struggles of generations of Black people going back to slavery, now hijacked by a white culture that brutally exploits jazz musicians for profit. Accordingly, the opening seven-minute credit sequence is an homage to jazz and jazz musicians.
“Passing Through attempted to encompass both the burgeoning creative consciousness of the central character musician Eddie Warmack, as well as the sounds of authentic jazz by Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and Grover Washington on the soundtrack; it remains an invaluable film-outcry” (Albert Johnson).
Written by Clark. Photographed by George Geddis and Roderick Young.(111 minutes. B&W and Color. 16mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive)
Cost: $10 - $14