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Black Fire: Shorts Program

Mon, May 19, 2025
    Part of
  • Malcolm X at 100, The Moving Image and Malcolm X
  • and
  • BAM Film 2025
Four shorts center Malcolm X and the wider Black Power movement, as well as Black life in NYC.

Struggle For Freedom
Dir. Lebert Bethune
22min; 16mm

Featuring some of the very last interviews with Malcolm X, this short by Lebert Bethune is a vital snapshot of a generational political icon.

From the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, a gift of Lebert “Sandy” Bethune.

Perfect Film
Dir. Ken Jacobs
22min

Ken Jacob’s short collects news footage detailing the events of Malcolm X’s assassination.

Protest: Black Power (1975)
Dir. Mert Koplin and Charles Grinker
15min

Excerpts from speeches and interviews of many leading black activists exemplify the various components of Black Power.

Courtesy of Indiana University Moving Film Archive.

Black Liberation/Silent Revolution
Dir. Edouard de Laurot
37min

This underseen masterpiece by radical filmmaker Edouard de Laurot layers revolutionary text and NYC street footage depicting Black life.

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