Chris Hair takes a look at African American style in GOOD HAIR, which opens the ImageNation Outdoor Film & Music Festival on July 12
St. Nicholas Park
135th St. & St. Nicholas Ave.
July 12- August 16, music at 7:30, film screening at 8:30
212-340-1874
www.imagenation.us
The ImageNation Outdoor Film & Music Festival begins July 12, kicking off eleven free programs of live music and film screenings held over five weeks, several nights of which are also part of the Historic Harlem Parks Coalition Film Festival. ImageNation, which “fosters media equity, media literacy, solidarity, cross-cultural exchange, and highlights the humanity of Pan-African people worldwide,” will be pairing live performances with select films, held primarily in St. Nicholas Park, in addition to one special evening in Marcus Garvey Park. The series gets under way tonight with Black Sheep, followed by Jeff Stilson’s award-winning 2009 documentary GOOD HAIR, in which Chris Rock examines African American hairstyles, and continues with such duos as STILL BILL, Damani Baker and Alex Vlack’s 2009 doc about Bill Withers, with Jeremy Jones performing live July 15 in Marcus Garvey Park; Stanley Nelson’s FREEDOM RIDERS with Nokie Henry; DJA-RARA playing on July 28 before Jeremy Robins’s 2008 documentary, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WATER, about the Haitian band; and the Bandroids rocking out prior to the August 15 screening of Bill Guttentag and Don Sturman’s SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION.