The Brooklyn Academy of Music will celebrate the films of Spike Lee at its fifth annual Afro-Punk Festival, an event that showcases “the wide range of underappreciated, undervalued, and criminally ignored Black alternative and rock n roll scene.”
Screenings for the July 5 Spike-a-thon will include “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads” — the 1983 movie Lee filmed for his NYU thesis about a barber who becomes entangled with the mob, and a 20th anniversary screening of “Do the Right Thing.”
The festival, which runs July 3-8, will also include David Leaf’s 2008 documentary “The Night James Brown Saved Boston” and Catherine Gund’s “What’s On Your Plate?,” presented with the filmmaker in attendance.
Matthew Morgan and James Spooner serve as Afro-Punk Festival’s co-curators.
