Join us at 5:05 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3rd for a free screening of the 1984 American family drama Bless Their Little Hearts on 16mm film! The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.
Bless Their Little Hearts centers on Charlie (Nate Harman), an underemployed, depressed father and husband and his relationships, particularly his strained union his wife Andais (Kaycee Moore). Like Burnett’s somewhat better-known classic of the UCLA film group, Killer of Sheep, Bless Their Little Hearts draws upon Italian Neorealist aesthetics and focuses on working people and their own lives. Woodberry’s incredible soundtrack of blues and jazz gives us a way to hear and feel what goes unspoken by and between the characters, but it also contextualizes the film and the characters in a richly imagined African American artistic world. Where Killer of Sheep unfolds as a series of vignettes, Bless Their Little Hearts is a bit more of a dramatic narrative but still maintains that commitment to documentary-like realism. Lensed by the great Charles Burnett.
This is a co-presentation of the AV Club, founded and directed by Katharine Labuda and Dr. Terri Francis, Associate Professor, Cinematic Arts.
About AV CLUB
AV CLUB is an ongoing program of curated 16mm short film screenings designed to provoke discussion, create awareness of unique library resources held by the Special Collections Division of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, and generate enthusiasm for learning and research.
About the Film Collection
The Miami-Dade Public Library holds one of the remaining, circulating 16mm film collections. The collection dates back to 1956 and was developed to be a teaching collection designed to be used for public programming.
