Oscar-nominated documentary "I am Not Your Negro" in Oxford on 18th October

Art as Activism: Baldwin’s legacy and relevance today - film screening and panel discussion on 18th October in Oxford

21 SEP 2017

Stuart Hall Foundation in collaboration with Merton College, Oxford and TORCH are organising 

a film screening of Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated documentary I am Not Your Negro followed 

by a panel discussion on 18th October in Oxford.

In his incendiary documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin 

never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using 

Baldwin’s original words and a flood of rich archival material.

The film screening will be followed by a discussion with the award-winning artist and 

filmmaker Isaac Julien and writer Caryl Phillips, moderated by Professor Alison Donnell 

(University of East Anglia). Taking the film and James Baldwin’s work as a starting point, the 

speakers will discuss their work and the life of an intellectual dissident in relation to art, politics

and activism.

Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Photo credit Dan Budnik

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