Presented by Black Film Archive / Center FILMS BY CHRISTOPHER HARRIS
Christopher Harris’ award-winning experimental films include a long take look at a post-industrial urban landscape, an optically printed and hand-processed film about black outlaws, a pinhole film about the cosmic consequences of the sun’s collapse, a macro lens close up of a child’s nightlight and a double projection film about a theme park performance of Christ’s Passion. Harris recently completed two multi-screen HD video installations that reenact and reimagine the slave daguerreotypes commissioned by Louis Agassiz in 1850. He was awarded a 2015 Creative Capital grant in support of his upcoming film Speaking in Tongues. His work has screened at festivals, museums and cinematheques throughout North America and Europe and is also featured in the Cinema Scope magazine article Between Two Eyes: Four Emergent Avant-GardeFilm/Videomakers for the New Decade. He is currently an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Sponsored by the Afrosurrealist Film Society, the Black Film Center/Archive, Cinema and Media Studies at The Media School at Indiana University, and the Underground Film Series. Special thanks to Dan Coleman, the Black Cinema House, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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