A Screening of Black Metropolis

17 Battery Place,New York NY 10004

09 March, 2022

Description

The documentary feature, Black Metropolis: 30 Years of Afrofuturism charts the journey of Tim Fielder’s career as a Visual Afrofuturist. This is a vaccinated (including booster) and masked event. If attending, you will be asked to show proof of vaccination including booster (if eligible). Afrofuturists and Twin brothers Tim Fielder and Jim Fielder have made contributions to the genre for more than 30 years. Follow their journey in this documentary feature, Black Metropolis: 30 Years of Afro-Futurism charts, following be a coversation between the brothers. BLACK METROPOLIS: 30 Years of Afrofuturism, Comics, Music, Animation, Decapitated Chickens, Heroes, Villains, and Negroes. A feature length documentary on the life and career of OG Afrofuturist Tim Fielder. The film features revealing interviews with groundbreaking cultural critics, afrofuturists, collegues, and family who saw the OG playing the art game during the burgeoning Hiphop, Black Rock, and Digital Animation movements. A cinematic experience for the ages! Feature Directed by StudioVisceral’s Jim Fielder. This is a vaccinated (including booster) and masked event. If attending, you will be asked to show proof of vaccination including booster (if eligible). Afrofuturism Festival Events at New York Film Academy, in collaboration with Carnegie Hall and Black Speculative Arts Movement and Dieselfunk Studios While megahit Black Panther brought Afro-Futurist Cinema to the mainstream, the concept was introduced more than 100 years ago and grew through Black creativity in literature, technology, music and the visual arts. W.E.B. Dubios’ 1920 science fiction novel The Comet is the godfather of Afrofuturism and its progeny - the work of authors Samuel R. Delaney and Octavia E. Butler, built on that foundation. The music and experimental films of Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and George Clinton expanded the paradigm and set the stage for an explosion through the medium of cinema. From the work of filmmakers Shirley Clarke and The Black Audio Film Collective, to the music videos of Missy Elliot to the genre-defying work of Terrance Nance, Afro-Futurist Cinema breaks open new possibilities of cinematic storytelling through the use of innovation and imagination. Afrofuturism in Cinema: Infinity, Creativity and Beyond is a series of film screenings and panels at New York Film Academy that explore how the foundation laid by our artistic ancestors has given birth to a new generation of filmmakers intent on using cinema to challenge, provoke, break us down, build us up and introduce to infinite possibility.