One Way or Another: Black Women’s Cinema at BAM

One Way or Another: Black Women’s Cinema, 1970-1991February 2-23 at BAM
Whether it’s a documentary, short film, or original screenplay, “One Way or Another” pitches the idea of film as a historical text and cultural memory. The series showcases black women directors as not just filmmakers, but anthropologists and griots, uncovering, archiving, and telling authentic stories by and about black women. The collective ethos of the series is personified in two of films about A