Cinestudio is pleased to present as part of our Celebration of African American Cinema program, sponsored in part by

the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation.

PERSONAL PROBLEMS

Feb. 3 - Feb. 8

All Tickets are $5 or Free with a Student ID or

Hartford Public Library Card.

Join us Sunday, February 5 at 1:30 pm for a pre-film talk led by Nicholas Forster, a lecturer in African American Studies and Film & Media Studies at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in African American Studies and Film & Media Studies. Interested in the relationship between technology, race, sound, and history, he has published pieces in Film Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, and liquid blackness.  

He is currently writing a biography of the black writer-actor-filmmaker Bill Gunn. Although Gunn is most famous for directing Ganja and Hess, Gunn wrote novels, acted in stage plays, and composed lyrics for music, and his career broached the bounds of numerous mediums. Forster looks at the scraps of the various lives in communities around Gunn to understand the connections between artists who worked across New York and Hollywood, in and outside of cinema. Examining institutional archives, in-progress works, and ephemera and conducting hundreds of interviews, this manuscript traces the developing networks of creative intimacy and what those relationships might mean for the production and reception of black art in the twentieth century.  

He is also the producer and host of the African American studies podcast The Lower Frequencies (thelowerfrequenciespodcast.com). 

THE WHALE

Feb. 9 - Feb. 16

Oscar Nomination for

Actor in a Leading Role

Actress in a Supporting Role

Makeup and Hairstyling

KILLER OF SHEEP

Feb. 17 - Feb. 22

Part of our

Celebration of African American

Cinema program

Presented with funding from

CLOSE

March 9

One Night Only

Oscar Nomination for

Best International Feature Film

REEL ROCK 17

March 11

One Night Only

Information coming soon on Oscar Week at Cinestudio

March 2 - March 10