Details
Directed by: Raoul Peck
Country:
United States, France
Runtime: 1h 33min
Certificate: 12
Year: 2016
Topics:
History & Archive
Last Screened:
Thu 21st Mar 2024
Recorded Q&A
I Am Not Your Negro: Raoul Peck Q&AMaster filmmaker Raoul Peck reimagines James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, with this radical and incendiary examination of race in America, connecting the narratives of past and present.
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. However, at the time of his death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript.
Using Baldwin’s words, voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, Peck crafts a lyrical and forceful interrogation of what it means to be black today.