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Millennium x Alfreda's Cinema presents: Tony Williams in Africa

Fri, Aug 12

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Millennium Film Workshop

This 37-minute short follows American jazz drummer Tony Williams to Senegal and features Super 8mm footage of Williams jamming outdoors with West African drummers

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Millennium x Alfreda's Cinema presents: Tony Williams in Africa
Millennium x Alfreda's Cinema presents: Tony Williams in Africa

Time & Location

Aug 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Millennium Film Workshop, 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237, USA

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About the event

Presented in Collaboration with , Willie Ruff’s newly restored documentary, came from the director’s interest in African talking drums. “The 37-minute short follows American jazz drummer Tony Williams to Senegal and features Super 8mm footage of Williams jamming outdoors with West African drummers as locals look on, as well as 16mm footage of Williams, Ruff, and pianist Dwike Mitchell sharing music and images from the Senegal trip with New Haven school children...William's friends would say, the musician came to see the film as “the most important legacy he left.”Alfreda's CinemaTony Williams in Africa

This film has been preserved by the Yale Film Archive, and is presented courtesy of the Yale Film Archive.

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  • Advance Screening ticket

    Present this ticket at the Box Office the night of the screening.

    $5.00

    +$0.13 ticket service fee

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