James Baldwin: From Another Place
Intimately portrayed, James Baldwin shares his thoughts on his work, private life, family, and sexuality in this short filmed in Istanbul during his residency in Turkey. Baldwin’s interviews, mixed with narration over street montages of Istanbul, ignite sparkles of nostalgia as he reminisces about his personal history, parallel to that of his country’s, the United States.

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
Originally anticipated to be a rather “generic” documentation of James Baldwin as an American writer living in Paris, Terence Dixon’s plan takes a sudden turn when growing tension between him and Baldwin about their visions of this documentary collide during production. Despite the pressure, Baldwin’s grounded brilliance, elegance, and emotional and intellectual perception shine through in his assuring rhetoric on politics and his genuine smile, laughter, and smirk shared with his fellow artist friends in Paris.

Baldwin’s N*****
“I’ll tell you a story,” says James Baldwin in the opening scene of Horace Ové’s documentary, which consists of a recorded discussion between Baldwin and Dick Gregory at The West Indian Students’ Centre in London. Over the course of the film, they delve into the Civil Rights Movement; Black identity in America, the Caribbean, and Great Britain; and the contradicting application of racially loaded terms in relation to their history and impact.