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Ganja & Hess: Free Screening

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  • Sun, Oct 27

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.

Director: Bill Gunn Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1973

Starring: Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Leonard Jackson, Marlene Clark, Sam Waymon

Join us at the Hi-Pointe for a screening of Ganja & Hess, presented for free by Kino Lorber!

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film Ganja & Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones (Night of the Living Dead) stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn), bestowing upon him the blessing of immortality… and the curse of an unquenchable thirst for blood. When the assistant’s beautiful and outspoken wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) comes searching for her missing husband, she and Hess form an unexpected partnership. Together, they explore just how much power blood holds.

Later recut and released in an inferior version, this edition represents the original release, restored by The Museum of Modern Art with support from The Film Foundation, and mastered in HD from a 35mm negative.

“A sensual, scholarly, magic-realist exploration of black history and black desire.”
– A. O. Scott, The New York Times

“An underground classic! The most complicated, intriguing, subtle, sophisticated and passionate black film of the ’70s.”

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