Gateway Film Center will screen notable works from the dawn of Black cinema, including Oscar Micheaux’s silent drama “Within Our Gates.'
The film center aims to illuminate the work of Black actors and behind-the-scenes artists who blazed their own trails. Today, many of the films they made are little-known and little-seen — a consequence of their being produced far from, and in opposition to, Hollywood.
James was receptive to supporting the series because he had just read Columbus-born author Wil Haygood’s acclaimed 2021 book on Black cinema, ““It was high on my agenda and my mind,” James said. “Chris asked whether Donna and I would do the seed money for it. And it’s like that line, ‘You had me at hello.’”“The idea of reintroducing not only to America as a whole but to Black America and to say, ‘This is such a proud moment in history and we did so much with so little,’” he said.
In the case of “Within Our Gates,” the screening boasts an extra component that can only be experienced in-person: live musical accompaniment from musicians of the Jazz Arts Group. The ensemble will consist of Powers on piano, Tsamous and Reggie Jackson on percussion, Edwin Byard on soprano sax, Miles Smith on trumpet and Ryan Hamilton on trombone.
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