ANYTHING YOU DON'T CONTROL CAN BE USED AS A WEAPON AGAINST YOU: RADICAL BLAXPLOITATION
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"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms."
This March the Beacon is excited to present a five-film series that spotlights the insurgent edge of early 1970s Black independent cinema.
While the blaxploitation cinema boom of the '70s became a lucrative cycle largely steered by white filmmakers and studios, this series centers artists who seized the form for themselves and traces how Black filmmakers subverted a market category into a vehicle for autonomy, militancy, and self-definition. Radical, confrontational, and defiantly independent, these films are acts of aesthetic and ideological revolt, turning genre into a weapon and the screen into contested ground.
This March the Beacon is excited to present a five-film series that spotlights the insurgent edge of early 1970s Black independent cinema.
While the blaxploitation cinema boom of the '70s became a lucrative cycle largely steered by white filmmakers and studios, this series centers artists who seized the form for themselves and traces how Black filmmakers subverted a market category into a vehicle for autonomy, militancy, and self-definition. Radical, confrontational, and defiantly independent, these films are acts of aesthetic and ideological revolt, turning genre into a weapon and the screen into contested ground.
