Associate Professor Christopher Harris (Head of Film and Video Production) will have his award-winning, canonical film still/here (2000) screened as part of a retrospective program on the history of Black Cinema (Shades of Black) at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland this August.  His film, rightly praised as an “avant-garde gem,” will be screened in the prestigious company of some of the world’s most important directors who have explored the complexity of black experience since the birth of cinema, including Oscar Micheaux, Ousmane Sembene, Jean Rouch, Charles Burnett, Spike Lee and Julie Dash. This is a distinct international honor and we are deeply proud of Prof. Harris’s achievements.

Greg de Cuir Jr., the curator of the program writes: “Black Light charts a historical panorama of international black cinemas while also putting into dialogue directors from a range of backgrounds that have made key works on the cultures and peoples of African descent, who have different identities and experiences in different parts of the world but with deep connections and relations."

Prof. Harris will also participate in the Black Light Retrospective Round Table at Locarno on the day before the screening of still/here.