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Live Virtual Q&A with BILL TRAYLOR: CHASING GHOSTS Filmmaker Jeffrey Wolf & Richard J. Powell of Duke University, Moderated by Executive Producer Sam Pollard
Tuesday, April 27 at 7:00 PM EDT
This event is free to the public.
Watch live on Film Forum’s YouTube channel.
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Jeffrey Wolf made the acclaimed documentary, JAMES CASTLE: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST, an award-winning film that delves into the life and creative process of the artist James Castle, as told by family members, artists and members of the deaf community. BILL TRAYLOR: CHASING GHOSTS is Wolf’s second feature length documentary. He has also made short films about the artists James ‘Son Ford’ Thomas, Martin Ramirez, Elijah Pierce, and Gregory Van Maanen. As a writer, his articles and art reviews have appeared in many magazines and catalogues. His photographs have been included in numerous publications. As a feature film editor, Wolf is recognized for his film work with prominent directors such as Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, Leslye Headland, John Waters, and Ted Demme. Films include THE REF, BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, HOLES, LIFE, among others. |
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Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University, where he has taught since 1989. He studied at Morehouse College and Howard University before earning his doctorate in art history at Yale University. Along with teaching courses in American art, the arts of the African Diaspora, and contemporary visual studies, he has written on a range of topics, including such titles as Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991), Black Art: A Cultural History (1997 & 2002), and Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (2008). Powell, an authority on African American art and culture, has also organized numerous art exhibitions, most notably: The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism (1989); Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997); To Conserve A Legacy: American Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (1999); Back to Black: Art, Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary (2005); and Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014). From 2007 until 2010, Powell was Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, the world’s leading English language journal in art history. An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2018, Powell received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History in 2013, and in 2016 was honored at the College Art Association's Annual Conference as the year's most Distinguished Scholar. His current book, Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020), examines satirical cartoons, paintings, and films by African American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. |
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Sam Pollard is an accomplished feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director. Between 1990 and 2010, Mr. Pollard edited a number of Spike Lee's films: MO' BETTER BLUES, JUNGLE FEVER, GIRL 6, CLOCKERS, and BAMBOOZLED. Mr. Pollard and Mr. Lee co-produced a number of documentary productions for the small and big screen, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, a feature-length documentary about the 1963 Birmingham church bombings which was nominated for an Academy Award and WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE, a four part documentary that won numerous awards, including a Peabody and three Emmy Awards. Five years later 2010 he co-produced and supervised the edit on the follow up to LEVEES, IF GOD IS WILLING AND DA CREEK DON'T RISE. Since 2012 Mr. Pollard has completed as a producer/director SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME, a 90-minute documentary for PBS that was in competition at the Sundance Festival, AUGUST WILSON: THE GROUND ON WHICH I STAND, a 90-minute documentary in 2015 for American Masters, TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’, a feature length documentary in 2016 that premiered at the Full Frame Film Festival, and SAMMY DAVIS JR., I'VE GOTTA BE ME for American Masters premièred at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2019 Mr. Pollard co-directed the six part series WHY WE HATE that premiered on The Discovery Channel. In 2020 he was one of the directors on the 2020 HBO Series ATLANTA'S MISSING AND MURDERED: THE LOST CHILDREN. He also completed in 2020 MLK/FBI that premiered at the 2020 Toronto Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. |