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Iconoclastic director Boots Riley returns to IU for what promises to be a can't-miss conversation on all things art, film, and culture. Takes place in Fine Arts Building, Room 102!
Please note this event is located at the Fine Arts Building, Room 102.
Enigmatic director (and activist, screenwriter, producer, poet, rapper, and speaker) Boots Riley is returning to IU for a wide-ranging conversation on all things, art, advocacy, and his new film I Love Boosters.
Riley's directorial debut Sorry to Bother You premiered to strong critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival. By embedding messages regarding economic and class critique as well as politically progressive movement building into dystopian science-fiction satire, Sorry to Bother You brought issues surrounding income inequality into wide public discussion in the United States and abroad. His seven-part series I’m a Virgo released in summer 2023 to critical acclaim. The absurdist comedy about a 13-foot-tall Black man who lives in Oakland, California stars Jharrel Jerome (who won an Emmy for his role in Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us), Brett Gray, Walton Goggins, Mike Epps, Carmen Ejogo, Kara Young, Olivia Washington, and Allius Barnes with a score by Tuneyards. Riley is also the founding member and lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club featuring Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine on guitar.
His new movie, I Love Boosters, premiered at SXSW on March 12 as the festival's opening film, and will screen as a free sneak preview (with Riley in attendance) at IU Cinema on April 8 at 7pm.
Riley will be in conversation with WFIU's own Alex Chambers. Chambers is a producer at WFIU, where he produces and co-hosts Nice Work, a weekly podcast and radio show, and created the podcast Inner States. He co-produced How to Survive the Future for Indiana Humanities, along with other podcasts and radio stories. He teaches podcasting at the Indiana University Media School.
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