Out of the Vault: Billy Woodberry in Person

March 22–29, 2023

Filmmaker Billy Woodberry presents two nights of his moving-image work and the annual Les Blank Lecture on documentary film.

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  • Bless Their Little Hearts

  • And when I die, I won’t stay dead

  • Marseille après la guerre

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Upcoming Films

  • And when I die, I won’t stay dead

    Billy Woodberry
    United States, Portugal, 2015
    • Wednesday, March 22 7 PM
    Les Blank Lecture by Billy Woodberry

    Billy Woodberry’s “daring and accomplished documentary” (New Yorker) of Bob Kaufman, one of the most overlooked of the Beat Generation artists, is lovingly assembled from archival footage, documents, and interviews. With an homage to Ousmane Sembène’s Black Docker.

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  • Bless Their Little Hearts

    Billy Woodberry
    United States, 1983

    New 35mm Print

    • Wednesday, March 29 7 PM
    Billy Woodberry in Person

    “Billy Woodberry’s dramatic feature looks deeply into the life of one family in Watts and plots its crisis in three dimensions: race, money, and gender. . . . Woodberry crafts a passionately pensive realism” (New Yorker). With The Pocketbook, an adaptation of a Langston Hughes story.

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