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Science Fiction Against the Margins: Opening Night Screening of Afrofuturist Shorts

Science Fiction Against the Margins: Opening Night Screening of Afrofuturist Shorts
The Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90024
Friday, October 4, 2024 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Science Fiction Against the Margins, a PST ART: Art & Science Collide film series presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive in partnership with UCLA Cinema & Media Studies Program, opens with a night of Afrofuturist themes films and conversation with filmmaker and UCLA Department of Art Professor Cauleen Smith and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Associate Professor Shelleen Greene. The screening includes: H-E-L-L-O (Cauleen Smith), Planet X (Ulysses Jenkins), The Last Angel of History (John Akomfrah), and Space is the Place (John Coney).

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