Across his three feature films to date (Medicine for Melancholy, Moonlight, and If Beale Street Could Talk), Barry Jenkins has devised a new cinematic vocabulary for the portrayal of Black experience in the United States. With sumptuous imagery and hypnotic soundscapes, Jenkins has embraced aesthetic beauty as a strategy for addressing the past and present injustices that bear on the lives of marginalized characters. His 2021 miniseries, The Underground Railroad is adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. A haunting, atmospheric account of two runaway slaves in the Antebellum South, the series is Jenkins’ most daring directorial work yet.
First virtual screening
Tuesday, September 21, 8-10pm
“Chapter 1: Georgia”
“Chapter 2: South Carolina”
Second virtual screening
Tuesday, September 28, 8-10pm
“Chapter 8: Indiana Autumn”
“Chapter 9: Indiana Winter”