Black New York | Beat Street (Day 7)
Beat Street reframes Black New York as a cultural engine, where movement, music, and art become survival strategies.
Black New York
Black New York | Across 110th Street (Day 6)
Across 110th Street presents Black New York as a fault line, where institutions, streets, and survival collide without resolution.
Black New York | Cotton Comes to Harlem (Day 5)
Cotton Comes to Harlem presents Black New York as a living network of wit, rumor, and collective knowledge, where humor becomes strategy and survival depends on reading people as well as streets.
Black New York | Losing Ground (Day 4)
Losing Ground presents Black New York as a mental and emotional landscape, where ambition, intellect, and intimacy quietly compete.
Black New York | The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Day 3)
The World, the Flesh and the Devil imagines Gotham stripped of crowds, conflict, and hierarchy, leaving a Black man alone with space, silence, and moral choice.
Black New York Begins
Throughout Black History Month, FilmGordon explores New York City as a foundational force in cinema, moving day by day through the five boroughs via films, eras, and music that define Black life on screen.
Black New York | Shaft (Day 2)
Shaft redefined the city on screen, placing Richard Roundtree’s John Shaft at the center of Harlem with confidence, intelligence, and unmistakable authority.
Black New York | The Love of Ivy (Day 1)
For Love of Ivy places Black desire, class, and emotional intelligence at the center of 1960s New York, moving between Harlem and the Upper East Side with clarity and restraint.