April Screening Series: 'Hands That Frame Us: Documentary as Collage'

Join The Sidney Poitier New American Film School for a pair of documentary film screenings curated by Professor Nita Blum-Reddick. Together, these films explore cinema as a practice shaped by the hands that hold the camera—and, in turn, shape how we see one another. In “The Gleaners & I,” Agnès Varda offers a distinctly unified essayistic perspective, unfolding through a series of vignettes that follow people across France as they rummage through overlooked or discarded objects, gathering fragments of everyday life. “Cameraperson” similarly assembles moments from across the filmmaker’s career into a collage of vignettes, creating meaning through the accumulation of encounters, gestures and observations. Seen together, the films illuminate how documentary meaning emerges through curation, juxtaposition and ethical attention—revealing interconnection not through a single narrative line, but through the relationships formed between images, encounters and acts of looking.

April 2: 'The Gleaners & I." RSVP here.

April 9: 'Cameraperson.' RSVP here.

All screenings start at 6 p.m. and are free and open to the public.