Commissionned by
Foam / Da Bounce Urban Film Festival / Pakhuis De Zwijger
Foam (Mirelva Berghout) and Da Bounce Urban Film Festival were organising a screening and discussion of the movie Shaft (1971) at Pakhuis de Zwijger. Programme: screening Shaft (100 minutes), followed by a conversation with Maarten van Hinte (co-founder Right About Now), Imanuelle Grives (actress) and Hesdy Lonwijk (film director).

Date
July 2017

By directing The Learning Tree, Parks achieved great fame for being the first African American director that made a mainstream Hollywood movie. With his detective Shaft Parks introduced audience in cinemas to the world’s first black action hero: John Shaft. The film marked and inspired the beginning of series of movies that would come to be known as Blaxploitation; movies were initially specifically were made for a black audience, working with a black cast and urban storylines.

As the curator of the Gordon Parks – I AM YOU exhibition at Foam I introduced his films in relation to his photography.