Fully Awake: Black Mountain College

  • September 23, 2018 / 16:00
  • October 6, 2018 / 18:00

Directors: Cathryn Davis Zommer, Neeley Dawson
USA, 2008, 60', color, black & white, English with Turkish subtitles
 
Hidden in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933 - 1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped twentieth century American art. Fully Awake: Black Mountain College is a documentary film that explores the college's progressive pedagogy and radical approach to arts education. Highly democratic and faculty-owned, the school promoted practical responsibilities and the creative arts as equally important components to intellectual development. During WWII, Black Mountain College was a haven for refugee European artists such as Josef and Anni Albers who arrived from the Bauhaus in Germany. In the socially conservative 1940s and 50s, the college also became a refuge for the American avant-garde, (Franz Kline, John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, Robert Creeley, Jacob Lawrence, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and M.C. Richards). Fully Awake explores how the confluence of this diverse community came together to create a unique educational model.
 

To Sir, with Love

To Sir, with Love

High School

High School

Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused

Kids

Kids

The Class

The Class

Fully Awake: Black Mountain College

Fully Awake: Black Mountain College

Beyond Measure

Beyond Measure

Arcadia

Arcadia

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Trailer

Fully Awake: Black Mountain College

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