James Baldwin Abroad

Director: Horace Ové, Sedat Pakay, Terence Dixon

1971 / 84min / DCP

Three recently restored shorts—Sedat Pakay’s From Another Place, Terence Dixon’s Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, and Horace Ové’s Baldwin’s N****r—catch up with Harlem-raised exile Baldwin in, respectively, Istanbul, Paris, and London (accompanied there by comedian and activist Dick Gregory), musing eloquently and frankly on such varied topics as Black American identity, sexual and creative freedom, and his early experiences as a child minister. Fascinating, vital documents of a lucid, angry, absolutely first-rate intellect at work.