To Hear Your Banjo Play

Willard Van Dyke, Irving Lerner

An Alan Lomax documentary on the evolution of American folk music, narrated by Pete Seeger, continues Lerner and Van Dyke’s engagement with the story of the USA. Van Dyke would go on to direct MoMA’s department of film from 1965 to 1974.

Introduction by Tom Hurwitz

Sessions

One Screening Only
28 Oct • 17:30 / 83’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / Continuity and Change

To Hear Your Banjo Play

Willard Van Dyke, Irving Lerner

Emergency Ward

Leo Hurwitz

The Young Fighter

Leo Hurwitz

Confrontation

Maurice Bailen