Free Screening of 'The Black and the Green (1983)'

"In The Black and the Green (1983), [St. Clair] Bourne explored the influence of the African American civil rights movement, both in philosophy and strategy, on the fight for Catholic independence in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Presented as a fact-finding trip to Belfast by five Black American activists (including Jean Carey Bond), where they observed Catholics living in all-too-familiar ghettos under constant surveillance and the threat of violence, the film, in Bourne’s own words, 'ends up seeming pro–Irish Republican Army in the same sense that a film about Selma in the 1960s might have ended up seeming pro-Black, but then I’m a filmmaker from the ’60s. I try to be humanistically political.'"
–Museum of Modern Art, New York