The Curtain Goes Up
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Title
The Curtain Goes Up
Subject
Minstrel shows--United States--History; Georgetown University--History
Description
The Curtain Goes Up is a short film produced by Georgetown College students Yasmine Bouachri, Clio Gates, Lauren Lee, Gary Simons, and Xanthia Yerby in FMST-399- Social Justice Documentary, taught by Professor Bernard Cook in the Spring 2020 semester.
The short film explores the hundred-year history of blackface minstrelsy at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. It utilizes archival material, found footage, and interviews with faculty, students, and a member of the GU272 community to raise the following questions: how do we address incidents of racism in our University’s past? Whose responsibility is it to spearhead the reconciliation movement? What role do we, as students, play in reconciling Georgetown’s past? The film invites the audience to consider their own relationships to such questions.
The short film explores the hundred-year history of blackface minstrelsy at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. It utilizes archival material, found footage, and interviews with faculty, students, and a member of the GU272 community to raise the following questions: how do we address incidents of racism in our University’s past? Whose responsibility is it to spearhead the reconciliation movement? What role do we, as students, play in reconciling Georgetown’s past? The film invites the audience to consider their own relationships to such questions.
Creator
Yasmine Bouachri, Clio Gates, Lauren Lee, Gary Simons, and Xanthia Yerby
Publisher
Vimeo-Georgetown Slavery Archive
Date
2020
Contributor
Producers: Yasmine Bouachri, Clio Gates
Director of Photography, Videographer: Gary Simons
Sound editor: Xanthia Yerby
Editor: Lauren Lee
Director of Photography, Videographer: Gary Simons
Sound editor: Xanthia Yerby
Editor: Lauren Lee
Rights
Yasmine Bouachri, Clio Gates, Lauren Lee, Gary Simons, and Xanthia Yerby
Relation
Format
mp4
Language
English
Type
Documentary Film
Identifier
GSA411
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Collection
Citation
Yasmine Bouachri, Clio Gates, Lauren Lee, Gary Simons, and Xanthia Yerby, “The Curtain Goes Up,” Georgetown Slavery Archive, accessed May 19, 2024, http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/490.