EVFF to focus on silent films
Our friend Robin Murray of the English and Film Studies departments at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston has sent along the full schedule (which you can review after the jump) for the seventh annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, taking place from Thursday, November 11, to Saturday, November 13. This year’s event will focus on how the achievements of filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, cinematographer Gregg Toland, and actor Charles Clary – all of whom have history in central and southern Illinois – helped shape the silent era of cinema. All lectures and film screenings will occur either at the EIU Doudna Fine Arts Center, EIU Tarble Arts Center, or the Charleston Carnegie Public Library, the latter off-campus at 712 6th St., Charleston. Not unlike the popular Alloy Orchestra appearances at “Ebertfest,” the EVFF has paired Micheaux’s key work WITHIN OUR GATES with “Little Egypt” based group Stace England & the Salt Kings, who will also play selections from their concept album, The Amazing Oscar Micheaux, during a separate performance. EVFF is co-sponsored by EIU’s College of Arts & Humanities and the Coles County Arts Council.
~ Jason Pankoke
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Embarras Valley Film Festival 2010
Silent Film and Illinois
Note: All events will be held in the Tarble Arts Center Atrium on the campus of Eastern Illinois University unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, November 11
EIU, Doudna Lecture Hall
7:00 p.m.
JOAN THE WOMAN (1917)
Charles Clary, Performer
Friday, November 12
EIU, Tarble Arts Center Atrium
2:00 p.m.
Robin Murray and Britta Grand
From Charles Clary and Gregg Toland to Oscar Micheaux: Silent Film in Illinois
2:30 p.m.
Tim Engles
Oscar Micheaux and the Struggle to Depict Black Life on the White Screen
3:00 p.m.
Klevor Abo
Cultural Politics, Political Culture, and Cinematic Language in Oscar Micheaux’s BODY AND SOUL
3:30 p.m.
Fern Kory
Children in Crisis: Moving Images of African-American Children in the Age of Silent Film
4:00 p.m.
Kevin Anderson
Rise: Oscar Micheaux and the Uplifting the Race through Film
5:00 p.m.
BODY AND SOUL (1925)
Oscar Micheaux, Director
6:45 p.m.
Reception
8:00 p.m.
Concert
Stace England & the Salt Kings: The Amazing Oscar Micheaux
Saturday, November 13
Charleston Public Library, Tarble Arts Center Atrium
10:30 a.m.
Children’s activities
Jeanne Goble, Joyce Jackson, Howard Taylor
Charleston Public Library
1:00 p.m.
Student Film Screening
Charleston Public Library
2:00 p.m.
THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH (1926)
Gregg Toland, Cinematography
Chuck Koplinski introduction
Charleston Public Library
7:00 p.m.
WITHIN OUR GATES (1920)
Oscar Micheaux, Director
With live score performed by Stace England & the Salt Kings
Dann Gire introduction
Tarble Arts Center Atrium
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