Isaac Julien: Baltimore

The rich history of Black participation in American cinema from its beginnings to just beyond the civil rights movement

The Regeneration microsite is the show's permanent digital home. In addition to original articles, essays, and curricular materials, the site offers introductory excerpts of the exhibition's print catalogue and an interactive database capturing the films, filmmakers, and production companies examined in the show.

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The Regeneration exhibition catalogue amplifies the underrepresented history of Black film in colorful and striking detail. The book features an in-depth curatorial essay, scholarly case-studies, an extensive filmography and chronology, and interviews with award-winning contemporary Black filmmakers Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins and Dawn Porter.

Regeneration Black Cinema Exhibition Catalogue and Book

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Film still from William Selig's Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898), with Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown. Courtesy of USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive

Film still from Something Good – Negro Kiss, 1898

The Nicholas Brothers in a scene from Stormy Weather, 1943, from left, Fayard Nicholas and Harold Nicholas. Photographic print, gelatin silver. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library, ©Twentieth Century Fox

The Nicholas Brothers from Stormy Weather, 1943

Portrait of Josephine Baker. Photo by adoc--photos/Corbis via Getty Images

Portrait of Josephine Baker

Carmen Jones costume design (Carmen, Change #1), Costume design: Mary Ann Nyberg, c. 1954, courtesy Cinémathèque Française

Carmen Jones costume design

Photo of Melvin Van Peebles, 1971. Photo by Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.

Melvin Van Peebles, 1971

Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971

Music and Film, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, photo by Joshua White, JW Pictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation.

August 21, 2022 – July 16, 2023

Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971

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Regeneration:
Black Cinema 1898–1971