Event Details
- Date(s): Thu, Aug 14
- Time: 6:00 pm
- Location: Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S Lamar Street, Jackson
Other Information
We are proud to present Capital Pictures, a limited engagement film series celebrating the art of great filmmaking in partnership with the Mississippi Film Society. This inaugural series kicks off this summer with the films of trailblazing director Oscar Micheaux, the first Black American to produce a feature length film. This early silent film, The Girl From Chicago, will be paired with an improvised DJ set. Cash bar.
Ticket $5; Registration required.
About the film
An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who’s being menaced by a local crime boss. He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their troubles follow them: they become involved in the murder of a local crime boss there.
About the filmmaker
The country’s first major black filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux (sometimes written as “Michaux”) directed and produced 44 films over the course of his career. Throughout the first half of the 20th century Micheaux depicted contemporary Black life and complex characters in his films, countering the negative on-screen portrayal of Blacks at the time.
