Black Nature Films in the Park: Black Orpheus
About this Event
The Office of Councilmember Chi Osse, Field Meridians, and Ashley Clark celebrate the publication of, a thought-provoking survey of important and influential Black films from around the globe, with a sunset screening of Black Orpheus (1959) in Brower Park.
“When I was preparing to write The World of Black Film, Black Orpheus was one of the first films on my list to include. A pivotal movie in the history of international Black on-screen representation, it’s an enthralling, unique work, and there is no better place to experience it than with a crowd of people in a beautiful open-air setting.”–Ashley Clark
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus (1959) was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.
About Curator
Ashley Clark is a writer, broadcaster, and film programmer who has worked as the curatorial director at the Criterion Collection in New York City since 2020. Previously, he worked as director of film programming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and he is the author of two books: Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (2015), and The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films (2026).
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