Ashley Clark is the curatorial director at the Criterion Collection. Previously, he worked as director of film programming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and he has curated film series at BFI Southbank, the Museum of Modern Art, and TIFF Bell Lightbox, among other venues. He has written for Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and Sight and Sound, and is the author of two books: Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled” (The Film Desk, 2015), and The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films (Laurence King, 2006).