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forgotten voice of Black American Cinema

The Story of a Three Day Pass

rare screening

Melvin Van Peebles (USA; 1967) Harry Baird

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Sun 3 November // 19:30 / Cinema

Tickets: Pay as you can: £7/5/3/0

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Unable to work in Hollywood, Melvin Van Peebles removed himself to Paris joining a diaspora of disaffected Black artists.  His edgy angsty romantic first feature could never have been made in America.  Van Peebles' film is an exploration of the psychology of an interracial relationship, as well as a commentary on France’s contradictory attitudes about race.  It's playful sarcastic and stingingly subversive by turns – check it out.