Capital Pictures: Within Our Gates

Mississippi Museum of Art | 380 S Lamar Street, Jackson| Website

Event Details

  • Date(s): Thu, Jul 24
  • 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 Capital Pictures, a limited engagement film series celebrating the art of great filmmaking, in partnership with the Mississippi Film Society.  

This second installment of the series features 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.. The film will be paired with an improvised DJ set. Cash bar. 

Ticket $5; Registration required.

Upcoming Screenings:

  • August 14, 6 PM – The Girl from Chicago (1932) | A federal agent falls in love while on assignment in
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