Birth by Alan Glover Film Screening

Join us for a screening and discussion for Birth (1974). Featured discussion on Gender and Misogynoir.

Artistically inspired by Luis Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou, Alan Glover’s film Birth(1974) surrealistically depicts the onset of cultural/political consciousness in a young African-American adult.

This film was the direct result of Glover’s political activism, starting with the second March on Washington in 1968 & the Poor People’s Campaign/Resurrection City. The latter demonstration was to be headlined by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. until he was tragically assassinated before the march occurred. Alan Glover covered the march as an independent photographer with his older brother, Doug. The following year, Alan & Doug went to Jackson, Mississippi, under the auspices of the Poor People’s Corporation (PPC), as volunteer workers."

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