Nostalgic for nothing cinema is back with a screening of the newly restored 1983 documentary by St. Clair Bourne, The Black and the Green in which a delegation of Black Liberation activists from the US visit Northern Irish Resistance organizers in Belfast in December 1981.

Shot just a few months after the martyrdom of IRA revolutionary Bobby Sands, The Black and The Green is comprised of organizing meeting, speak outs, interviews and candid footage all thinking through the complexities of solidarity between related but discrepant resistance movements. The organizers draw parallels between the Black Struggle in the US, the Irish Struggle for independence from colonial British/Unionist rule and partition, and the pre-Intifada Palestinian Resistance struggle among others. St. Claire Bourne made a vibrant oeuvre of black biopic documentaries about Alice Coltrane, Amiri Baraka, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes and generally practiced a formally distant mode of reportage where he rather his subjects do the speaking.

The Black and the Green / dir. St. Clair Bourne / 1983 / 48 mins

Doors: 6:30pm

Start: 7:00pm

Free