Regeneration, Remixed

In celebration of the Academy Museum’s landmark exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971—ahead of its closing date of July 16, 2023—we take another look back at the period covered in the exhibition, this time using a contemporary lens. Regeneration, Remixed is a dialogue between living Black filmmakers and the complicated cultural and cinematic legacies they face.

Whether through a reclamation of archival footage, a reimagining of an iconic golden age genre, or the contrast of a new musical mediation, the artists of Regeneration, Remixed offer new visions and ideas of what Black cinema was and can be. This series also includes a new score by composer Kathryn Bostic for Something Good-Negro Kiss (1897) and excerpts from the silent film The Flying Ace (1926).