Films with: Cortez, Jayne

Poetry in motion

A performance film of contemporary poets which celebrates poetry's ancient oral tradition. Here twenty-four leading North American poets sing, chant and read from their own works.

DVD 2211

Slave Routes resistance, abolition & creative progress /

Excerpted footage of the symposium Slave Routes: resistance, abolition & creative progress, held at New York University, Oct. 9-11, 2008. Commemorates the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by the United States. Featuring scholars, writers, musicians, visual artists, and organizers from the international community, who discuss slavery, the slave trade and its consequences, in plenary, panels, readings, performances, conversations and film/video screenings. Also includes emphasis on the modern day slave trade.

DVD 7852