Allyson Nadia Field

UChicago’s Film Studies Center to preserve groundbreaking work by Black and Filipino filmmakers A dancer in a white bodysuit dances inside a white parachute.

UChicago’s Film Studies Center to preserve groundbreaking work by Black and Filipino filmmakers

Grant funds will restore films by Aarin Burch and 1930s home movies of Chicago’s Filipino community

NEH recognizes three UChicago humanities scholars Silent film "Something Good -- Negro Kiss"

NEH recognizes three UChicago humanities scholars

Their work covers Black love, music of Bob Dylan and Chinese literature

Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts celebrates past and future of Black women’s filmmaking Julie Dash sits on stage while holding and talking into a microphone. Next to her on the right sits Barbara McCullough.

Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts celebrates past and future of Black women’s filmmaking

Symposium at UChicago reunites filmmakers 47 years after the original festival

Sojourner Truth Festival to bring together generations of Black women filmmakers Two black women sit next to each other looking into the distance. The older women in red has her arm around the younger one and is holding a grape. They are surrounded by vegetation and candles. A fruit basket is visible in the foreground.

Sojourner Truth Festival to bring together generations of Black women filmmakers

UChicago symposium to commemorate the original festival held nearly 50 years ago

Piece of earliest known Black-produced film found hiding in plain sight Black and white still from the film The Trooper of Troop K. A man and woman sit on a front stoop looking at each other. The woman is holding a letter. In the left-hand corner is a superimposed scene of a man in a military hat talking to a woman.

Piece of earliest known Black-produced film found hiding in plain sight

UChicago scholar helps identify silent-era cinema fragment embedded in another film

How America’s earliest films were based in minstrelsy Citation image, Chicago Tribune, Allyson Nadia Field

How America’s earliest films were based in minstrelsy


Academy honors UChicago scholar who identified historic on-screen kiss Something Good Kiss reel preview

Academy honors UChicago scholar who identified historic on-screen kiss

1898 Silent Film Represents Earliest Depiction of On-Screen Black Love Citation image, WTTW, Allyson Nadia Field

1898 Silent Film Represents Earliest Depiction of On-Screen Black Love


Tracing Chicago origins of 'Something Good,' a recently discovered film clip depicting first onscreen kiss between two African-Americans Citation image, Allyson Nadia Field, Chicago Tribune

Tracing Chicago origins of 'Something Good,' a recently discovered film clip depicting first onscreen kiss between two African-Americans


Can we trust the beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? Citation image, The New Yorker, Allyson Nadia Field

Can we trust the beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”?