dir. Spencer Williams, 1941, 68 min.

This “masterpiece of folk cinema that has scarcely lost its power to astonish” centers on a woman who journeys between heaven and hell after her husband accidentally shoots her.

Remarks after the film by Iggy Cortez, PhD Candidate in the History of Art and the Cinema and Media Studies Program. Iggy is currently completing his dissertation entitled Night on Earth: the Nocturnal Sensorium in World Cinema. 

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Film Series copresented by Wolf Humanities Center and Penn Cinema and Media Studies. Program in collaboration with Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia.

Thanks to film series curators, Iggy Cortez, Alexander Kauffman, and Eleni Palis.