I'm thrilled to be included in this upcoming group show at Hill Art Foundation! Ina Archer, BBMAMS: Minstrels, 2024. Acrylic paint and collage on paper, 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery,... Continue reading

Ina Archer, BBMAMS: Minstrels, 2024. Acrylic paint and collage on paper, 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery, New York I'm delighted that "Black Black Moonlight:A Minstrel Show" will be included in: The Writing’s on the Wall: Language and Silence in the... Continue reading

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{image via the Hi De Ho Blog} Well, all good things must come to an end (for now) so please come thru and join us for the final HOME TO HARLRM program! Thursday, June 30 at 7:30PM Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Lenox Ave. Home to Harlem! ⭐️🎶🎶🎶🎶⭐️ You may SMASH... Continue reading

Come thru! click text below for the link to the schedule Made In Harlem: Home To Harlem Screening FREE June 9-June 30 2022 In Collaboration with: the Documentary Forum at City College, Third World Newsreel, Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano, Children’s Art Carnival, and XFR Collective "Home to Harlem" presents Harlem... Continue reading

This was the moment in 1967 that pushed Hollywood forward. It was constructed, rehearsed, directed, enacted, and filmed and edited with added foley effects. I reedited the scene for my installation Osmundine(Orchid Slap). This is the moment and behavior that sets Hollywood back 50 plus years, upending the joy of... Continue reading

Last day to see my solo booth with Microscope Gallery @ the 2021 Frieze NYC Viewing Room! Virtually Come thru! Ina Archer is an artist expanding the possibilities of moving image, installation, sculpture, and collage. Archer’s works draw attention to stereotypical and degrading representations of African Americans and the “other”... Continue reading

Last day to see my solo booth with Microscope Gallery @ the 2021 Frieze NYC Viewing Room! Virtually Come thru! Ina Archer is an artist expanding the possibilities of moving image, installation, sculpture, and collage. Archer’s works draw attention to... Continue reading

"Medicine for Melancholy, which received a 2008 Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature, stands out as both a “first” of its kind and as a disciple of earlier duet films like Before Sunrise (1995) or even Something Good Negro Kiss (1898), the newly uncovered film fragment of a Black couple (vaudevillians Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown) playfully canoodling. Continue reading

"When you do something ... in a community where you’re involved in attempting to share the history, you become something … you become a key or kernel from which people can be challenged, from which they can build other things, or from which they can see possibilities." Continue reading

Two events at one of my favorite places in the world! Editing Exercises by Hortense "Tee" Beveridge 1st/ MORE ORPHANS OF NEW YORK Sunday, May 19, 5:10 Tuesday, May 21, 2:30 A sequel to last October’s twice-sold-out “Orphans” show. This... Continue reading

May 20th @ 6:20 SHARP! FILM FORUM HERE WE COME!! SMASH YOUR BAGGAGE! HAROLD & FAYARD!! THE FABULOUS CORA LaREDD!! NINA MAE & BABE! Artist and archivist, Ina Archer, presents early sound shorts starring Black artists, mostly filmed at Brooklyn’s Vitaphone studios, including Yamercraw: A Negro Rhapsody (1929); An All-Colored... Continue reading

Doppelgängstas! Please follow the tether here to read my review of Us on Film Comments blog. And while you are there check out my reviews of Get Out and Keanu! Like many of the most enduring horror films, Peele taps into the return of the repressed. Us dares us to... Continue reading

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Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 Well, for one thing I have been working at The Smithsonian Museum Of African American History and Culture as a media conservation and digitization assistant... That's all folks! Oh Wait! There's more! I've created a... Continue reading

Have you seen Sorry To Bother You yet? Excellent! Now you can read my featured essay in the July/August copy of Film Comment Magazine. (BTW--NO SPOILERS here) "That first screening of Sorry to Bother You I attended was framed by the release of Childish Gambino/Donald Glover’s “This Is America” music... Continue reading

(my interpretation attempt) "And he had always been dying—dying to be white. That was what my mother said, that you could see the dying all over his face, the decaying, the thinning, that he was disappearing into something white, desiccating into something white, erasing himself, so that we would forget... Continue reading

(Look out!) I was happy to write this piece for Film Comment Selects in collaboration with Turner Classic Movies. Like another mature lady, Blanche Dubois, I always appreciate the kindness of my youthful editor, Nic Rapold. "Their depictions of aging... Continue reading

Have you seen Jordan Peele's horror/social-thriller yet!? Read my review and GO. NOW. ***Get Out @#BLACK_LEADER *** Lil ole me @ Critics Roundup Continue reading

I was happy to write a review of Get Out for Film Comment's blog! I worked hard to be spoiler-free: excerpt: Get Out self-consciously and subtly mines the conventions of the horror genre to create a film that resonates on multiple levels. It applies the universal concerns of horror movies... Continue reading

{image via Deadline Hollywood from an informative interview with Washington about his directorial work.} I think Denzel was had at the Oscar's in the best actor category and he was sorely unacknowledged as a director. Here's my review of his work on Fences in the January/February issue of Film Comment... Continue reading

image via Hollywood Reporter-read their thorough article on McDaniel and the Academy Awards here: Well, it's actually after the Awards Show that will live in infamy. I missed the moment having gone to bed in disgust after L2 Land was mistaken for the "Best Picture". The only reason I have... Continue reading

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The indelible Duane Jones! Tonight @ BAM. NotLD was on just about a week ago and we had just seen Jones in Losing Ground where he is so debonair, funny and charming. The recorded interview below suggests resonances to his performance as a distinguished but under-recognized, gentleman actor--rather down at... Continue reading