september, 2022
Event Details
Explorations of family as home, curated by IU Cinema guest programmer in residency Maya Cade of the Black Film
Event Details
Explorations of family as home, curated by IU Cinema guest programmer in residency Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive.
About Your Children Come Back to You
Your Children Come Back to You | Directed by Alile Sharon Larkin: Your Children Come Back to You is a contemporary allegory about values and assimilation. The film literalizes the meaning of a “mother country” by means of the story of a young girl, Tovi, torn between two surrogate mothers: one comfortably bourgeois, the other nationalist. Cinematography by Charles Burnett and co-starring Angela Burnett. [27 mins; drama; English]
“Director Alile Sharon Larkin’s film masterfully presents a child’s perspective on wealth and social inequality.” – Samuel B. Prime, UCLA
“[Larkin is] a young and original filmmaker whose pride and sensitivity is matched, happily, by an equal aesthetic sense … If there’s any other film as tender as this one, I haven’t seen it.” – Ruby Rich, The Chicago Reader
“This work provides a raw, revelatory glimpse of a single mother making ends meet, as seen through the eyes of her precocious daughter.” – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Home Is Where the Heart Is: Black Cinema’s Exploration of Home is generously supported by the Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council and the Black Philanthropy Circle.
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET