Afterimage: Madeline Anderson

November 17–18, 2016

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The Cool World
I Am Somebody
I Am Somebody

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The Cool World
- Friday, November 18 7 PM
Shirley Clarke
United States, 1963
Restored 35mm Print

Madeline Anderson and Orlando Bagwell in conversation.
Anderson was assistant director and editor on Shirley Clarke’s jazz-infused feature about Harlem youth. “As much a document of uptown street life just before the period of Black Power as it is an early landmark in the history of American neorealism” (Amy Taubin).
I Am Somebody: Three Documentaries by Madeline Anderson
- Thursday, November 17 7 PM
Madeline Anderson and Orlando Bagwell in conversation.
Legendary filmmaker Madeline Anderson presents three documentaries that bring to life the civil rights movement and African American experience of the sixties.

Afterimage: Madeline Anderson

Filmmakers & Critics in Conversation

November 17–18, 2016

Award-winning filmmaker, producer, editor, and educator Madeline Anderson was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1992. A regular filmgoer from childhood, Anderson recognized early on the potential of the medium to educate and inform. With exceptional determination, Anderson endeavored to tell the stories of people who were not represented in the films she was seeing. As she realized her vision she broke down barriers of race and gender at every turn. In 1960, encouraged by an early mentor—documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock—she produced and directed her first film, Integration Report 1. That work, a wide-ranging look at the civil rights movement, exemplifies the clarity, economy of means, and political significance that would become the hallmarks of her career. Anderson was assistant director and editor on Shirley Clarke’s The Cool World before becoming the first black employee at the television station NET (later WNET). She worked with William Greaves on the renowned NET series Black Journal, where she produced and directed A Tribute to Malcolm X. Anderson left the program to make what has become her best-known film, I Am Somebody, a documentary about the 1969 hospital workers’ strike in Charleston, South Carolina.

We are honored to host Madeline Anderson in conversation with Orlando Bagwell after each screening. Orlando Bagwell is the director of the documentary program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and an accomplished writer, producer, and documentarian, lauded for works about the civil rights movement and the history of race relations in the United States.

Kate MacKay, Associate FilmCurator

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Our programs with Madeline Anderson are presented as part of Afterimage: Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation, made possible by generous funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Thanks to Livia Bloom, Roia Ferrazares, Walter Forsberg, Jacob Perlin, Jeremy Rossen, and Elena Rossi-Snook for their help with this program

Afterimage: Madeline Anderson

November 17–18, 2016

Past Films

The Cool World

I Am Somebody: Three Documentaries by Madeline Anderson