The UofR OnFilm group will host an evening with Reece Auguiste titled On Duty and Spirit including screenings of Duty of the Hour (Reece Auguiste, Tony Dancy, U.S. 2015, 57 min.) and Stillness Spirit (Reece Auguiste, 21 min.) .

An associate professor at the University of Colorado and founding member of the critically acclaimed British-based Black Audio Film Collective, Reece Auguiste is a documentary practitioner and scholar whose research focuses on national cinemas, transnational screen cultures and documentary media practices. Auguiste's fields of interest are film theory and criticism, aesthetics of the moving image, documentary screen practices, the Soviet and post-Soviet avant-garde, Iranian screen cultures, Chinese screen cultures, African Diaspora screen practices and their operations in transnational contexts. Auguiste is the director of the award-winning films Twilight City, and Mysteries of July. His most recent film, Duty of the Hour explores the life and times of the American civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks, which, along with an unreleased film, Stillness Spirit, will constitute the program screenings for our spring 2019 event.

[source: UofR's OnFilm website, 2019-Feb-25]