Event ScheduleThursday, 7:00-9:00pmĮvent is over. The museum’s forthcoming exhibition Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller is being held in partnership with The New York Review of Books and the American Folk Art Museum. With BISR’s Christine Smallwood, Suzanne Schneider, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, translator Tess Lewis, and novelist Hermione Hoby, we’ll ask: What distinguishes a story from a novel? How do we acquire knowledge collectively? Why, in the age of mass communication, are we “not richer, but poorer in communicable experience.” Is political, cultural, and social fragmentation endemic to “modern” life, and if so, can it be overcome?Ī light reception will follow the talk. The Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival is a platform that amplifies the voices and perspectives of Black filmmakers, and I am grateful for the opportunity to feature my work there.Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Storyteller” is one of his most important -a profound meditation on the contrast between story-telling and mass communication and the immense significance of the apparent fact that “Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly.” On Thursday, October 10th, join BISR, The New York Review of Books, and the American Folk Art Museum as we take the occasion of the NYRB’s publication of “The Storyteller” and related essays to examine the meaning and enduring relevance of Benjamin’s essay -for modern politics, communication, literature, and sensibility. “This recognition means a lot to me as a filmmaker and as a storyteller.

Walter Benjamin - Turuz. Benjamin Walter - Critique Of Violence.pdf. “I am thrilled and honored to have both of my short films selected to screen at the prestigious Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, an important festival for Black film and Black perspective,” Abudu added. 27157525 Walter Benjamin Aura of Photography. Both films have been invited to screen at the 21st Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (August 4-12), one of the most respected Black film festivals in the U.S., which is also an Oscar qualifying festival, and will showcase at the Cannes Short Film Corner later this month.Ībudu said: “It is my fervent belief that true artistic expression demands absolute freedom, and it is with great pleasure that I have taken the leap of faith to direct my first two short films with the launch of Mo Abudu Films.”

Benjamin the storyteller