REEL UNITY PAIR: How Power Looks / A Walk In Her Shoes
Film(s) To Be Screened
How Power Looks
How Power Looks explores methods of establishing power within the historical context of the University of Virginia. This film juxtaposes Jefferson’s “Academical Village” as a backdrop with current students of color dressed in regency era colonial garb made from African Kente cloth. The students wear white face, and sing about the inception of the African Diaspora stemming from forced displacement due to the transatlantic slave trade. This functions as an institutional critique by foregrounding the power and absurdity of whiteness at this institution while nodding to the atrocities that made this form of whiteness possible. By appropriating whiteness through the use of makeup, costume and song, this video indicts the University of Virginia’s glossy erasure of its troubled history and compares it to the erasure of black history caused by slavery which UVA still benefits from today.
A Walk In Her Shoes
A Walk in Her Shoes is a full feature film that shares one woman’s intimate story of personal discovery, empowerment, and triumph. In a quest to overcome one of the biggest obstacles of her life, Metra Lundy simulates a walk to freedom by re-tracing the steps of the great American heroine, Harriet Tubman. In doing so, Metra discovers who she really is.
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Screening Location
5 West North Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore, MD 21201
Viewing Time
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October 8, 2021, 9:40 pm
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