Screening of AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY
Department: Film and Media Studies
Date and Time: December 2, 2014 | 12:30 PM-2:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1070 (McCormick Screening Room) UC Irvine
Event Details
The Department of Film and Media Studies would like to invite you to a screening of
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY
a film by Grace Lee, 2013
Color, 84 mins.
What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future.
The documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, plunges us into Boggs’s lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond.
"raises meaningful questions and keeps them profitably open" New York Times
"a deeply moving examination of the power of a single individual to affect change" Hollywood Reporter
This event is free and open to the public.