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Frame by Frame is a limited audio series of keynote conversations with scholars and filmmakers who visited the Black Film Center & Archive at Indiana University between 2018 and early 2020. Conducted by former BFCA director Dr. Terri Francis, these discussions retrace the interviewees' paths to their professions as they explore the lesser-known aspects of their published work. The series’ title pays homage to the BFCA's founding director Dr. Phyllis Klotman's book Frame by Frame, which is 70 ...
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Frame By Frame: Episode 5 - Numa Perrier
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When did sex become so serious? Artist and filmmaker Numa Perrier asks this question not because she doesn’t know the answer, but because she wants to engage in the power of the erotic to encompass a fuller human experience, with not only a seriousness of vision but also intentional and inherent playfulness. Her first feature-length film, Jezebel, …
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Jessie Maple, the first Black woman to join the International Photographers of Motion Picture & Television Union, talked about her career with Dr. Terri Francis in January of 2020 during her campus visit. Her 1989 film Twice as Nice, which screened at the IULMIA, follows twins Caren and Camilla Parker, both star players on a college women’s basketb…
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Frame By Frame: Episode 4 - Philana Payton
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NASA defines a supernova as “the last hurrah” of a dying star. But what do supernovas and Black leading women in Hollywood have in common? That’s what Philana Payton, doctoral candidate for Cinema and Media Studies at USC is searching to answer in her dissertation, “Celestial Bodies: Black Women, Hollywood, and the Fallacy of Stardom.” Payton visit…
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Frame By Frame: Episode 2 - Esther Figueroa
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Jamaican filmmaker Esther Figueroa visited the BFC/A in the Spring of 2019. The visit was a part of the program, ‘Black Sun White Moon: Exploring Black Cinematic Imaginations of Space.’ The film series included Fly Me to the Moon, Figueroa’s feature-length documentary about the natural material of bauxite in the Caribbean that have been mined as an…
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Frame By Frame: Episode 1 - TreaAndrea Russworm
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As a part of the Before Representation series in Fall 2019, Dr. TreaAndrea Russworm, Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst, presented her work on race and video games at the IU Media School. Dr. Russworm’s work spans across digital cultural studies to postmodern studies. A natural storyteller since childhood, the professor envi…
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