I Am Not Your Negro

‘In June 1979, the eminent US author James Baldwin began work on his final, unfinished text, *Remember This House*. Drawing on personal memories of his three friends, the civil rights activists Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King – all of whom were assassinated – and reflecting on his own painful life experiences as a Black man, he rewrites the history of America. Raoul Peck brings these 30 previously unpublished manuscript pages to life with a dazzling collage of archive photographs, film footage and news clips: the boycott campaigns and resistance to racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, the invisibility of Black people in Hollywood’s cinematic myths, and African-American protests against white police violence right up to the present day.” (Berlinale, 2017)

‘Using images of events that took place long after Baldwin’s death, Peck demonstrates the tragic timelessness of Baldwin’s analyses. And he develops one of his main theses with unsparing clarity: ‘The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.’” (Barbara Schweizerhof, epd-film, 24 March 2017)