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3 days ago · Oscar Micheaux is considered the first major African-American feature filmmaker. He made his first film in 1919 and (44 films later) his last in 1948. Maria P. Williams is considered the first Black woman film producer for the 5-reel silent drama based on her own screenplay for Flames of Wrath in 1923.
2 days ago · Early examples of activist cinema emerged in the early 20th century, focusing on labor rights and social injustices. Films like "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), though controversial, spurred political responses that led to the creation of counter-narrative films such as "Within Our Gates" (1920) by Oscar Micheaux.
5 days ago · This was good for the Macon community and the Douglass Theatre, because the roots of the Douglass Theatre include showing silent and sound films by independent producers and filmmakers such as...
4 days ago · Oscar Micheaux, a farm boy who broke barriers for Black artists in Hollywood; Louisa Phifer, who ran a farm and raised seven children while her husband served in the Civil War.
3 days ago · This lynching scene is from Oscar Micheaux’s silent film Within Our Gates (1920). By interrupting the bright colors of the installation with grainy, black and white footage, it separates the historical setting of the two screens while simultaneously connecting the past and present.
5 days ago · When it comes to cinema, the director and screenwriter Oscar Micheaux made the first feature African-American film, The Homesteader, in 1919. Producing both silent and sound films, Micheaux took the lives and struggles of African Americans as subject in his films.
5 days ago · Oscar Micheaux came to the screen with the distinct intention of subverting the aims of pictures like D.W. Griffith’s insidiously racist Birth of a Nation, as the derogatory Klan film drew the praise of a sitting US president. This is important work.
