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- Date(s): Thu, Jun 19
- Time: 6:00 pm
- Location: Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S Lamar Street, Jackson
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The Mississippi Museum of Art is proud to present Capitol Pictures, a limited engagement film series celebrating the art of great film-making in partnership with the Mississippi Film Society.
This inaugural series kicks off this summer with the screening of Body and Soul (1925), an early silent film by trailblazing director Oscar Micheaux, the first Black American to produce a feature length film. The film will be paired with an improvised DJ set. Cash bar.
Ticket $5; Registration required.
Upcoming Screenings:
- July 24, 6 PM – Within Our Gates (1920) | Sylvia Landry, a young African-American woman goes North to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South. Her romance with a Black doctor eventually leads to revelations about her family’s past and her own mixed-race ancestry.
- August 14, 6 PM – The Girl from Chicago (1932) | A federal agent falls in love while on assignment in Mississippi.
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