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Black Film in Focus: Selections from Black Canon and Motor City Cinema

Michigan Central and Motor City Cinema Society will present a cinematic celebration of Black storytelling through The Black Canon, a Detroit-based arts collective and archive. The event will feature rare 16mm prints from the James E. Wheeler Collection, one of the most significant Black film archives in the country. Curated and introduced by Motor City Cinema Society and Wheeler’s children, Ali Wheeler and Alima Trapp, the four-part program spans rare archival clips of Nina Simone and Joe Louis, 70s television trailblazers, and animated shorts. It offers a rare opportunity to experience this collection in its original analog format.