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Nationtime (VOA)
Location
Main screening room
Date
May 7th, 2022
Duration
80 min
Cycle
Noir.e.s à la caméra

The recurrent cycle Noir.e.s à la caméra allows us to discover works directed or produced by African or Afrodescendant filmmakers throughout the history of cinema.

Nationtime
Directed by
William Greaves
Language
English version
Actors
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Isaac Hayes, Richard Roundtree
Origins
USA
Year
1972
Duration
80 min
Genre
Documentary
Format
Digital
Synopsis

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, Isaac Hayes, Richard Roundtree and H. Carl McCall.

Nationtime

William Greaves

William Greaves (October 8, 1926 – August 25, 2014) was a documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of African-American filmmaking. He produced more than two hundred documentary films, and wrote and directed more than half of these. Greaves garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations. (Wikipedia)

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Nationtime by William Greaves

Nationtime by William Greaves

Nationtime by William Greaves

Nationtime by William Greaves

Nationtime by William Greaves

Nationtime by William Greaves

Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, the film was considered too militant for television broadcast at the time and has since circulated only in an edited 58-minute version. This new 4K restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.
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