NIGGER

October 7, 2009 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

“people dissect and debate what is arguably the most loaded word in our history”

Thea St.Omer will host a screening of her documentary film, Nigger at ArtRage. Compiled from over a hundred interviews Nigger screened as a work-in-progress at New York University and at Syracuse University last spring.  This premiere screening of the final release print (59 minutes) is Free and Open to the Public.  Off-street parking available at 408 and 414 Lodi Street.

To read a review of this film by Nancy Keefe Rhodes published in the City Eagle; use the link below:

http://www.cnylink.com/cnyarts/view_news.php?news_id=1254167385

Other Reviews:

“I thought [Nigger] was challenging and well-handled and especially in today’s sociopolitical comment, a film worth viewing.  I think it will make audiences uncomfortable and I think it should, because it goes to a place, in a very even-handed way, to somewhere polite society avoids.” – anonymous, cleveland international film festival.

“What’s in a word?  Everything.  Lest anyone think race need not be discussed and unpacked, see St.Omer’s documentary, Nigger.  St.Omer’s artistry shines light on every corner of a forbidden word.  This film won’t let you stop talking about it. It entertains and provokes thoughtfulness.  It casts a lens of remarkable people on art, history, culture and popular culture, politics, identity, ontology, and life.  Nigger is beautiful.” – douglas biklen, dean of the school of education, syracuse university.

“… a kind of naked, raw human expression.” – halcyon sealey-westmass

“Ultra organic!  The epitome of what postmodernity is all about.” – herbert ruffin

co-producers stephenson laurent and ann-marie st.claire; post coordinator jason kohlbrenner, sound editor douglas quin, colorist gavin whalen