“…this is the point where the entanglement of quantum physics is a much more useful metaphor for blackness than that afrofuturist capture of cosmology’s dark matter…” — Charles Mudede, The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Free and open to the public. (Masking required.) More Info
Venue
Film Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive Durham,
NC
27705
Description
Free Film Screening:
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1990, 94 min, USA, Color, DCP)
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival — yet criminally underseen for over three decades — Chameleon Street recounts the improbable but true story of Michigan con man Douglas Street, the titular “chameleon” who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter, an Ivy League student, a respected surgeon, and a corporate lawyer. Elevated by a dexterous performance and daring direction from multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr., the film pins a lens on race, class and performance in American identity — and has lost none of its relevance. New 4K restoration.
Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public. (COVID-19 Info)
