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• Screening of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm:
Take One on Monday March 10, 2008 at the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences [1375 Broadway @ 37th St.]
Reception: 6:00pm. Screening: 6:30pm.
• The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) recently awarded William Greaves Productions a startup grant for production of a documentary on the Harlem Renaissance. The documentary will be offered to PBS by NBPC which will also make the film available to the public for download on its website. The project has been developed with grants from the Independent Television Service (ITVS), NBPC and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The documentary draws together some of the most important African American artists of our time with rare, never-before-seen footage and interviews with Harlem Renaissance leaders filmed in 1971. It will look at the culture, folkways, and artistic creativity of African Americans since the 1920s and the crucial role that African American artists - and Harlem itself - have played in the evolution of a unique American culture. However, it will not simply be a nostalgic look at past accomplishments, but a frank evaluation by the artists themselves of what has been achieved, where they may have failed, and how they should respond to the challenges facing African American culture in the global economy of the 21st century. Will it survive as a vital creative force in the constantly changing rich tapestry of American culture? William
Greaves Productions is seeking completion funding for the project. • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and Take 2 1/2 released by The Criterion Collection in December 2006. This special edition double-disc set features a new documentary on Greaves's career, a video interview with actor/director Steve Buscemi. The set also includes a booklet featuring a new essay by critic Amy Taubin and production notes by Greaves for Take One.
• Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey screened at the National Arts Club in New York on February 13, 2008 at 7:45pm. Screening is free and open to all. Q&A with director William Greaves will follow the screening. [The National Arts Club is located at 15 Gramercy Park South (20th Street) between Park and Irving Place, on the southwest corner of Gramercy Park. Tel: 212.475.3424] •
One-time screening of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm:
Take One (1968) and Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle
Class (1967) at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music (BAM) as part of the 2007 Afro Punk Festival. • William Greaves was Artist-in-Residence at The Institute of African American Affairs at New York University during March/April 2007. During his residency, Greaves presented several of his award-winning films followed by panel discussions with guest speakers, including David Levering Lewis, Chuck Stone and St Clair Bourne. Download the complete Program Schedule. • 2006 LEO AWARDS presented to William Greaves at the Walter Reade Theater on Thursday, November 16th. The LEO AWARDS recognize excellence in the field of independent media. For more information, visit the International Film Seminars' web site. • Two of Greaves' rarely screened films, From These Roots and The First World Festival of Negro Arts, were shown on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Robert S. Duncanson Society Artist-in-Residence program at the Taft Museum of Art, in Cincinnati, OH, on November 4, 2006. Visit the Taft Museum's Web site for a complete schedule of events. • October 6, 2006. Greaves presented with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's Africana Heritage Award, on the occasion of the Center's 80th Anniversary Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center. American Negro Theater alumni Ruby Dee and Harry Belafonte were among the legendary figures honored at the event. •
National Society
of Film Critics honors Symbiopsychotaxiplasm:
Take One and Take 2 1/2 with its 2005 Experimental Award,
calling the films a "remarkable investigation into the nature
of the acting process and power relationships on a movie set."
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE and TAKE 2 1/2 (Double
Feature)
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE |