Los Angeles Rebellion pioneer and filmmaker Barbara McCullough’s documentary Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot is a poetic meditation on the life of Los Angeles jazz musician, composer and community activist, Horace Tapscott (1934–1999). Screened in conjunction with the Getty’s exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–85, the film—four decades in the making—is a loving portrait of Tapscott, Black Los Angeles, and musical history. After the screening, McCullough will be joined on stage in conversation with Kristin Juarez, senior research specialist for the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute.

This program is part of the Art on Screen series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories, as well as the series Black Visions: Film as Archive. In addition, Barbara McCullough is featured in the Getty Research Institute’s oral histories collection as related to the 2008 program Modern Art in Los Angeles: African American Avant-Gardes, 1965–1990.

DIRECTED BY: Barbara McCullough. PRODUCED BY: Barbara McCullough and Chephren Rasika. EDITED BY: Scott Brock. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Johnny Simmons, Al Santana, Charles Burnett, Bernard Nicola. 16mm to HD, color, sound, 72 minutes, 2017.