An Evening with Charles Burnett will take place Thursday, Sept. 21, 7:30-9 p.m. at Shannon Hall, 800 Langdon St. on the UW-Madison cmapus.

One of the most important American independent filmmakers, Charles Burnett, has made a wide range of films across different forms, genres and industries that look closely at questions of gender, class and race in the United States.

Burnett made independent titles such as Killer of Sheep (1978), a portrait of a poor family in Watts; Hollywood films like To Sleep With Anger (1990), the story of a trickster figure (Danny Glover) upsetting the life of a family in LA and The Glass Shield (1994), an unforgettable police procedural about police corruption featuring Lori Petty and Ice Cube; TV films like Selma Lord, Selma (1999), Disney’s telling of the march on Selma; and documentaries like Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003) which look at different versions of the Nat Turner story throughout history (including the documentary itself!).

Of his work Time Magazine has said, “If Spike Lee’s films are the equivalent of rap music — urgent, explosive, profane, then Burnett’s movie is good, old urban blues”.

Please join Distinguished Lecture Series for an evening with Charles Burnett on Thursday, Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m. The doors to Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall will open at 7 p.m.

The lecture is free and open and unticketed to both students and the public, and will end with a 30 minute Q&A.