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‘Sweet Willie Rollbar’s Orientation’ Screening and Talk with Brent Hayes Edwards

Name: ‘Sweet Willie Rollbar’s Orientation’ Screening and Talk with Brent Hayes Edwards
Start: 2026-03-23T16:00:00
Location: Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis Department of Music

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Sweet Willie Rollbar’s Orientation is an experimental film shot in 1972 by the saxophonist Julius Hemphill, the poet K. Curtis Lyle, the actor Malinke Elliott and other members of the Black Artists’ Group of St. Louis. Made in part with funding from WashU, the film is an astonishing document of the post-Black Arts moment, a series of fragmented, surreal “trickster tale” vignettes set in the detritus of the St. Louis ghetto. Brent Hayes Edwards, w...

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