The Museum of Modern Art’s film series Best Film Not Playing in a Theater Near You this weekend includes director Lanre Olabisi’s debut feature film August the Fifth, about Nigerian immigrant life in New Jersey: A powerful drama in which old tensions resurface—and a family is torn apart—when a son invites his estranged father in [...]
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Coming to America
Posted in film, immigrants, immigration, Lanre Olabisi, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New Jersey, Nigeria, Nigerians on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sight: Isaac Julien
Posted in art, film, immigration, Isaac Julien, Metro Pictures on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Martina Kudláček interviews Isaac Julien in the latest issue of BOMB magazine about his triptych of films about journing across continents and cultures – True North, Fantôme Afrique and Small Boats, a film about African immigration to Italy. Small Boats can be viewed at Metro Pictures in New York City from 26 October through to [...]
Le Petit Senegal
Posted in Harlem, immigration, Le Petit Senegal, Little Senegal, New York on July 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times published a short feature in its Sunday “The City” section on Little Senegal, the area on Frederick Douglas Boulevard between 116th Street and 125th in Harlem. According to the reporter Nana Kankam ‘… in the five-year period ending in 2005, the number of African-born immigrants living in central Harlem increased by [...]
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