Mothering on Screen: Film + Discussion Series
August 17, 1-4pm: Soul Food (George Tillman Jr., 1997)

This July and August, join us for Mothering on Screen, a free film and discussion series. Featuring six films that explore the experiences of black mothers across different decades, landscapes and social contexts, this series will follow the labor of mothering through the popular, critical and experimental terms of black cinema.

Black mothering on screen can take different forms. Sometimes black mothers appear as matriarchs of multi-generational families, tasked with conveying the rich inheritances of the past. In another context, the black mother is a survivalist, forced to navigate a precarious present defined by racism, mass incarceration, and poverty. There is the expectant mother, who anticipates the future that mothering can make. Each of these figures perform different aspects of mothering, and they each respond to the racialized and gendered scripts of the home, the marriage, the city, the South, and the world.

A catered, group discussion will follow each screening. Free and open to all!

Mothering on Screen: Film + Discussion Series | Sundays, July 13 - August 17, 1 - 4 PM*
*Sunday, July 27, 5-8pm
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201

Upcoming Screenings:

• 7/20: Mother of George (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)

• 7/27 *5-8pm: Bush Mama (Haile Gerima, 1979)

• 8/3: A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell, 2023)

• 8/10: Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022)

• 8/17: Soul Food (George Tillman Jr., 1997)

This series is organized by Screening*, a film programming partnership between Elizabeth Myles and Avery LaFlamme. Previous series include: Screening Juneteenth (2022), Screening Freedom (2023), Screening Acts (2024).