Within Our Gates
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.
Piano : Gabriel Thibaudeau
Sylvia Landry, an African-American teacher from the deep south, travels north to raise money to support her school. During her trip she meets a black doctor and falls in love with him. The film depicts segregation and racial violence, including the lynching of an African-American man.
Preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux was an African-American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film, and has been described as "the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century". His films were used to oppose and discuss the racial injustice that African Americans received. Topics such as lynching, job discrimination, rape, mob violence, and economic exploitation were depicted in his films. (Wikipedia)
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Within Our Gates
Oscar Micheaux’s bold, forceful melodrama, from 1919—the oldest surviving feature by a black American director—unfolds the vast political dimensions of intimate romantic crises. Along with his revulsion at the hateful rhetoric and murderous tyranny of Southern whites, Micheaux displays a special satirical disgust for a black preacher who offers his parishioners Heaven as a reward for their unquestioning submissiveness...
