UT Professor Discusses Motion Picture Director Gordon Parks
University of Toledo faculty member and filmmaker Tammy Kinsey will introduce a free showing of the motion picture Shaft and discuss Gordon Parks, its director, at 7 p.m. Friday, March 19 in the GlasSalon of the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion.
The 1971 break-through motion picture led the way for African-American filmmakers to enter the mainstream entertainment industry. Kinsey will discuss Parks’s career, the impetus to become a film director working in the genre that became known as Blaxploitation, and the work that preceded Shaft.
Kinsey, an associate professor and associate chair of UT’s Department of Theatre and Film, teaches film production, cult film and television, experimental cinema, arts censorship and documentary film. She also makes personal documentary and experimental films.
In addition to being a film director and author, Parks was a master fashion photographer and photojournalist. In the Museum’s Canaday Gallery, 73 iconic and powerfully moving works grouped together by Parks himself are being shown through April 25 in the exhibition Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks. Organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, the touring exhibition is supported by funds from the Capital Group Foundation, the Cantor Arts Center’s Hohbach Family Fund and members of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford.
Admission to the March 19 film showing and presentation, the photography exhibition and the Museum is free. Visit www.toledomuseum.org for more details.
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