Virtual Film Screening / Week 2 / Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama

Thirteen years, two radical activist all-stars-one conversation.

Internationally renowned scholar, professor, and writer Angela Davis and grassroots organizer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama spent over a decade conversing intimately about personal histories and influences that shaped them and their overlapping experiences in Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama, A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation.

MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING offers the gift of these two remarkable women’s lives, sharing the pair’s recorded exchanges in 1996 and 2008. The film’s unique format honors the scope and depth of their knowledge on topics ranging from Jim Crow laws and Japanese American internment camps, to Civil Rights, anti-war, women’s and gay liberation movements, to today’s campaigns for political prisoners and prison reform. Intercut with compelling period footage, Davis and Kochiyama’s cogent observations, keen analyses, and steadfast resolve to create a more equitable, humane world offer inspiring lessons in empowerment and community building for current and future generations. 

A film by C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan | 2009 | 97 minutes

This event is presented in partnership with Windows of Understanding. 

Grant funding for this screening has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.