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8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker

Kara Walker
8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker, 2005. Still from DVD Video (B&W video w/audio boxed with cut paper silhouette, Beta Master) Duration 15:57 .

Kara Walker: Two Films

Kara Walker at Apartheid Museum

Daily from May 23, the Apartheid Museum will screen two films by acclaimed American artist Kara Walker, 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving
Picture by Kara E. Walker
(2005) and …calling to me from the angry surface of some grey and threatening sea.

23 May - 17 July



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