Memorializing History: A Conversation About Monuments, Truth, and Justice
The Neutral Ground documents New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council’s vote to remove four confederate monuments. But when that removal was halted by death threats, CJ set out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still held so much power in America.
We invite you to "Memorializing History: A conversation About Monuments, Truth, and Justice," a virtual film screening and conversation with filmmaker CJ Hunt, Connecticut-based artist and educator Allison Minto MFA ’20, Senior Lecturer in African American Studies and Film & Media Studies Thomas Allen Harris, and Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies David Blight.
Registration for the event is closed. View a recording of the conversation on Replay here.
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LoveBabz LoveTalk with Babz Rawls-Ivy: Filmmakers CJ Hunt and Thomas Allen Harris
A conversation about The Neutral Ground filmmaking experience and its relevance to Yale and New Haven today
The Neutral Ground: Director's Statement
"I try to remember that taking irrefutable snapshots of white supremacy doesn’t actually mean anything if my work does not also render Black humanity and resistance visible."
The Neutral Ground: Character Descriptions
Get to know the people in the film.
The Neutral Ground: Filmmaker Bios & Credits
Read the filmmakers' bios, production companies, and full credit roll.
Co-sponsored by these Yale organizations:
- Department of African American Studies
- Film & Media Studies Program
- Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration
- Poynter Fellowship
- Yale School of Art
- Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
- Yale Film Archive
In collaboration with Yale course AFAM 216/FILM 433: Family Narratives / Cultural Shifts.