CHARTS TO FOLLOW: KEEPING TIME’S INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSIONS (2025)
Introduction
liquid blackness presents a public screening and discussion of Keeping Time (2023) with the filmmaker, Darol Olu Kae, and film scholar, Josslyn Luckett. With Keeping Time, we once more take up the political, historical, and aesthetic practices of the jazz ensemble we have studied with past research projects on Larry Clark’s Passing Through (1977) and Barbara McCullough’s Horace Tapscott: A Musical Griot (2017). Keeping Time returns to the work of Horace Tapscott and the avant garde jazz ensemble, Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (The Ark), as it follows Mekala Session, the young drummer and new bandleader of The Ark, as he learns to navigate and hold the legacy of the past with the material and communal needs of the ensemble. In this labor of gathering, searching, and preparing, Keeping Time images practices for bridging the gaps across generations, for listening to and finding the stories and histories of an ensemble, and figuring out ways to care for those who show up. Taking place in the liminal spaces of the garage, the van, boxes of sheet music and cassettes, and the front porch, Keeping Time shows the interdependence of the past and present, solo and group harmony.
liquid blackness in Conversation with Darol Olu Kae and Jossyln Luckett
Events Schedule
Thursday, March 27, 6pm
Screening of Keeping Time by Darol Olu Kae, followed by conversation and Q&A with filmmaker Darol Olu Kae and film scholar Josslyn Luckett.
Kopleff Recital Hall: 15 Gilmer St. SE, Atlanta, GA 30303
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Film and Media Studies Department, Emory University