Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar in conversation with Professor Paola Bacchetta (Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley) about her films A Place of Rage (which includes Angela Davis, June Jordan, Alice Walker), Sari Red (about a sexist anti-Asian hate crime) and Khush (the first film ever about queer South Asians) at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) on February 9 at 7pm.The conversation will take place after the films are shown.
A Place of Rage is a fierce and loving assessment of the social movements of the 1960s from the vantage point of the 1990s culture wars. The film features interviews with three of the most influential Black feminist intellectuals of our time: Angela Y. Davis, Alice Walker, and June Jordan. The trio asserts the centrality of Black womens labor and the necessity of intersectional movements for the liberation of all peoplepast, present, and future.
Sari Red: Sadly still all too relevant, Parmars richly evocative 1988 cine-poem was made in memory of Kalbinder Kaur Hayre, a young Indian woman killed in a racist attack in the United Kingdom in 1985.
Khush: means ecstatic pleasure in Urdu. Inspiring testimonies of queer people of color bridge geographical differences to locate shared experiences of isolation and exoticization, but also the unremitting joys and solidarity of being khush (Kali Films).
This event is a part of film series titled Pratibha Parmar in Person running from February 923, 2023 at the BAMPFA.
