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Evading Capture: Black Women in Cinema | DIVA with special guests Abiodun Koya and Tiffany Barber
January 6, 2025 at The Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Join us in person for a screening of Diva, the story of a singer who chooses to keep her art on her own terms.
The evening includes a pre-screening performance by classical singer Abiodun Koya and a post-screening conversation between guest curator Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and scholar, curator, and critic Tiffany Barber.
In celebration of LACMA's Simone Leigh exhibition, filmmaker and Simone Leigh collaborator Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich presents Evading Capture: Black Women in Cinema, a guest-curated film series exploring what happens after refusal. When desire is too bold or too risky to reveal, Black women have created other ways to express themselves—ways that blur the line between subject and object.
Diva
France, 1982
Jules (Frédéric Andréi) goes on the run from every conceivable pursuer - from drug dealers and music pirates to the cops–after obtaining a recording of the woman of his dreams, the never-recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez).
Evading Capture: Black Women in Cinema | DIVA with special guests Abiodun Koya and Tiffany Barber
January 6, 2025 at The Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Join us in person for a screening of Diva, the story of a singer who chooses to keep her art on her own terms.
The evening includes a pre-screening performance by classical singer Abiodun Koya and a post-screening conversation between guest curator Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and scholar, curator, and critic Tiffany Barber.
In celebration of LACMA's Simone Leigh exhibition, filmmaker and Simone Leigh collaborator Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich presents Evading Capture: Black Women in Cinema, a guest-curated film series exploring what happens after refusal. When desire is too bold or too risky to reveal, Black women have created other ways to express themselves—ways that blur the line between subject and object.
Diva
France, 1982
Jules (Frédéric Andréi) goes on the run from every conceivable pursuer - from drug dealers and music pirates to the cops–after obtaining a recording of the woman of his dreams, the never-recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez).
