About This Event
Preserving the Revolution: Films by Josh Morton and Sedat Pakay
Friday, June 5, 2026, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cost: $5, $3 for Scribe Members
From the Yale Film Archive, join us for three newly preserved shorts by student filmmakers at the time, Sedat Pakay and Josh Morton.
Mayday
(USA, 1970, 22 mins)
Made by the film collective May First Media, MAYDAY examines the events surrounding the Black Panther trials in New Haven, and the university’s unorthodox reaction. Preserved, from elements provided by filmmaker Josh Morton, at Fotokem, 2016.
Puppet Show
(USA, 1970, 9 mins)
Josh Morton’s second film for the Black Panthers’ New Haven chapter documents a presentation by the “Revolutionary People’s Theater,” telling the story of Lonnie McLucas and the police in New Haven, through puppets. Preserved at Fotokem, 2016.
James Baldwin: From Another Place (USA/ Turkey, 1973, 12 mins )
Photographer and filmmaker Sedat Pakay (1945-2016) was born in Turkey and came to the United States to attend the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1964. After meeting James Baldwin that year, he returned home to Turkey in 1970 to make a film about the exiled writer, whom he described as "a photographer’s dream."
Josh Morton is a director and cinematographer whose professional experience ranges from 16mm political documentaries to 65mm visual effects.
Sedat Pakay is a photographer and filmmaker whose subjects included James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Josef Albers, Gordon Parks, and countless others. Pakay’s work has been accepted into the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian Museum.
About This Event
Preserving the Revolution: Films by Josh Morton and Sedat Pakay
Friday, June 5, 2026, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cost: $5, $3 for Scribe Members
From the Yale Film Archive, join us for three newly preserved shorts by student filmmakers at the time, Sedat Pakay and Josh Morton.
Mayday
(USA, 1970, 22 mins)
Made by the film collective May First Media, MAYDAY examines the events surrounding the Black Panther trials in New Haven, and the university’s unorthodox reaction. Preserved, from elements provided by filmmaker Josh Morton, at Fotokem, 2016.
Puppet Show
(USA, 1970, 9 mins)
Josh Morton’s second film for the Black Panthers’ New Haven chapter documents a presentation by the “Revolutionary People’s Theater,” telling the story of Lonnie McLucas and the police in New Haven, through puppets. Preserved at Fotokem, 2016.
James Baldwin: From Another Place (USA/ Turkey, 1973, 12 mins )
Photographer and filmmaker Sedat Pakay (1945-2016) was born in Turkey and came to the United States to attend the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1964. After meeting James Baldwin that year, he returned home to Turkey in 1970 to make a film about the exiled writer, whom he described as "a photographer’s dream."
Josh Morton is a director and cinematographer whose professional experience ranges from 16mm political documentaries to 65mm visual effects.
Sedat Pakay is a photographer and filmmaker whose subjects included James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Josef Albers, Gordon Parks, and countless others. Pakay’s work has been accepted into the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian Museum.