Nationtime
Buzzes with the long-term historical power of the occasion.
Nationtime
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall. Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, the film was considered too militant for television broadcast at the time and has since circulated only in an edited 58-minute version. This new 4K restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.
Genre
Documentary,
Politics,
History,
Greg's List
Web Site
Runtime
80
Language
English
Director
William Greaves
FEATURED REVIEW
Richard Brody, New Yorker
When black politicians, activists, and artists gathered in Gary, Indiana, for the 1972 National Black Political Convention, the filmmaker William Greaves documented the event. The resulting film buzzes with the long-term historical power of the occasion, and notes the divisions that the organizers ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 10.23.20 - 11.12.20
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