"Riotsville, USA" Screening and Q&A
Description
The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and the Center for Africana Studies are co-sponsoring a Q&A after the Baltimore premiere of Riotsville, USA, featuring the film's director Sierra Pettengill and writer Tobi Haslett as well as Johns Hopkins' Stuart Schrader, who consulted on the film.
Riotsville, USA is a documentary about the U.S. government's response to civil disorders in 1967, based on archival footage from the period: Welcome to Riotsville, USA—a point in American history when the nation's rulers—politicians, bureaucrats, police—were faced with the mounting militancy of the late-1960s and did everything possible to win the war in the streets. Using training footage of Army-built model towns called "Riotsvilles" where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder, in addition to nationally broadcast news media, director Sierra Pettengill connects the stagecraft of "law and order" to the real violence of state practice. Recovering an obscured history whose effects have shaped the present in ways both insidious and explosive, Riotsville, USA is a poetic and furious reflection on the rebellions of the 1960s—and the machine that worked to destroy them.
Who can attend?
- General public
- Faculty
- Staff
- Students
Tickets
A limited number of free tickets are available for Johns Hopkins undergraduate students and RIC-affiliated grad students. To request a ticket, please fill out this form by Oct. 11
General admission tickets are $12
Registration
A limited number of free tickets are available for Johns Hopkins undergraduate students and RIC-affiliated grad students. To request a ticket, please fill out this form by Oct. 11
Otherwise, please purchase tickets in advance