I Am Not Your Negro made the shortlist for this year’s Best Documentary Oscar (very deservedly so), and a new trailer is promoting its wider release next month.
In adapting James Baldwin’s unfinished novel Remember This House, director Raoul Peck crafted a fascinating look at the experience of black Americans. The novel was to focus on the connections between the assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., and while film covers the murders, it also uses archival footage of Baldwin to craft a lyrical, powerful document that ranges from D.W. Griffith to Black Lives Matter.
I Am Not Your Negro will be released on February 3rd, 2017.
In his new film, director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished – a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original words. He draws upon James Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America.
