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Ernest Dickerson, the cinematographer of several of Spike Lee’s best-loved works and an accomplished director in his own right, travelled to the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao to create "Double Play," featuring a phenomenal performance by Luke Cage star Mustapha Shakir! 6/1 at 8:30pm More info and tickets available at maysles.org!
Next Saturday, our Double Exposure: Take Two series, presented by @creatively_speaking begins with "King of Stage," about Woodie King, one of the most important figures in the contemporary Black cultural arena, founder and producing director of the New Federal Theater and the National Black Touring Circuit in New York City. We previously had the chance to host Woodie King for a screening and Q&A of his film "Black Theater"! 6/1 at 6pm More info and tickets available at maysles.org!
Graffiti legends Blade, Butch 2, Daze, The Fab 5, IN, Jester, Kase 2, Lee, Shadow, Slave, Stim, Pusher and Uncle John 178 own the screen in Manny Kirchheimer's 1981 STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED. This trip through NYC's '81 street art scene is set to the music of #CharlesMingus & #ArethraFranklin. STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED screens with DREAM OF A CITY Fri. 5/24 at 7:30 as part of our #MannyKirchheimer run
Apply for our Teen Producers Academy Summer Intensive! An opportunity to learn about documentary filmmaking for 6 weeks at Maysles for high school students. Deadline to apply is May 31st!
Thank you to everyone who came out for Ephraim Asili’s “The Diaspora Suite” part of our series called “Personal Ethnographies” A great film that matched with a great Q&A!!
Double Exposure: Take Two is a weekend long series curated by @creatively_speaking that brings to the forefront works from across the African Diaspora, born of African American, African, and Caribbean origins. June 1st & 2nd More info and tickets available at maysles.org
Over the next two days, filmmakers Sky Hopinka and Ephraim Asili will share their carefully curated selection of short films as part of our #PersonalEthnographies series, which explore the various modes of personal expression that underrepresented groups have developed with and against the American avant-garde tradition! More info and tickets available at maysles.org!
"Xqwiska, you've fallen again. I pluck flowers from your" From @brother_sky 's FAINTING SPELLS screening alongside several other of Sky Hopinka's shorts tonight at part of the first program of the Personal Ethnographies section of our yearlong experimental film series The American Experiment made possible by @WarholFoundation Sky will join us to present and discuss his work at 7pm Tomorrow May 18th, Personal Ethnographies continues with Ephraim Asili's DIASPORA SUITE followed by a discussion with Ephraim. More info and tickets available at maysles.org!
 

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