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Past Film/Video | Visiting Filmmakers
Free for all audiences
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Ohio State’s Department of African American and African Studies, the Wex is honored to welcome artist, writer, and media conservator Ina Archer, who’ll introduce a program of rare amateur and home movies by African American filmmakers.
Drawn from the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the program includes family motion pictures spanning the 1940s through the 1990s gathered from sources that include jazz great Cab Calloway, Maryland’s Highland Beach community, Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth in Action, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux and The Church of God, and participants in the museum’s Great Migration Home Movie Project. (program approx. 90 mins., digital video)
Couple on the Grass (Foye Family Home Movies, c. 1970) Image courtesy The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Lena Horne and friend (Cab Calloway Home Movies, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam, c. 1940) Image courtesy The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Cab Calloway and baby (Cab Calloway Home Movies, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam, c. 1940) Image courtesy The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Cab Calloway and friend (Cab Calloway Home Movies, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam, c. 1950) Image courtesy The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Woman in Red Swimsuit (Lathan Family Highland Beach Home Movies, c. 1950) Image courtesy The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
We Made It (McQueen Family Home Movies, c. 1980) Image courtesy The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of African American and African Studies and the Wexner Center for the Arts; special thanks to Department Chair, Dr. Simone Drake.
SEASON SUPPORT FOR FILM/VIDEO Rohauer Collection Foundation
SUPPORT FOR THE FILM/VIDEO STUDIO PROGRAM Institute of Museum and Library Services
SUPPORT FOR ARTS ACCESS AT THE WEXNER CENTER Cardinal Health Foundation Huntington Bank
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR THE WEXNER CENTER Greater Columbus Arts Council Ohio Arts Council The Columbus Foundation Nationwide Foundation
Past Film/Video
“We Made It!”: 50 Years of African American Amateur and Home Movies
