MSU Film Collective: NATIVE LAND

MSU Film Collective: NATIVE LAND

When:
April 11, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
2019-04-11T19:00:00-04:00
2019-04-11T19:15:00-04:00
Where:
B122 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
USA
MSU Film Collective: NATIVE LAND @ B122 Wells Hall | East Lansing | Michigan | United States

4/11 Native Land (Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand, 1942) with Workers Film and Photo League shorts

Presented by McKayla Sluga

After breaking with the Film and Photo League and converting Nykino into Frontier Films, Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand directed Native Land, released in 1942. Paul Robeson narrates and sings in this social-political film about the plight of American farmers, sharecroppers, and industrial workers against violent local authorities and the Ku Klux Klan. Fusing newsreel footage with fictional recreations, Native Land straddles documentary and drama to endorse leftist revolutionary ideology and labor union activism as antidotes for racism and corporate/capitalist exploitation of workers.