Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class

As a special season of William Greaves’ films plays at the Barbican, we present a 16mm BFI National Archive print of his film Still a Brother, in which the multidisciplinary creative, who emerged from the Harlem Renaissance, probes the reality and complexity of middle class African American life at the end of the 1960s. A BFI National Archive print. Showing with 71 USA 2022. Director Paige Taul. 19min. Digital In 71, Paige Taul takes an updated look at the Black middle class, juxtaposing Greaves’ footage against a multi-generational conversation with her family. Screen: NFT3. Screening details: Special screening available; 35mm; Intro by Matthew Barrington.