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L.A. Rebellion: A Different Image and Short Films

Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House

January 16, 2013

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L.A. REBELLION: CREATING A NEW BLACK CINEMA

A Different Image
Dir. Alile Sharon Larkin, 1982, 16mm, color, 51 min. - New print!

An African American woman contemplates self-identity, heritage and perception on the streets of the sprawling Los Angeles metropolis in a film by Alile Sharon Larkin.

Grey Area
Dir: Monona Wali, 1981, 16mm, b/w, 38 min. - New print!

From Black Panthers to Young Urban Professionals, several members of a blighted neighborhood debate the causes and experience the stresses of cyclical poverty in Monona Wali’s bracing drama, as a monolithic bank commissions a films about its own supposedly good work in the community.

Cycles
Dir. Zeinabu irene Davis, 1989, Digital Video from 16mm, b/w, 17 min.

As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification in this short by Zeinabu Irene Davis.

Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification
Dir. Barabara McCullough, 1979, 35mm, b/w, 6 min. - New restoration!
Preservation funded with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant Program funded by The Film Foundation.

In collaboration with performer Yolanda Vidato, Barbara McCullough presents a Black woman’s attempt to expel the putrefaction she has absorbed from her blighted urban environment, while symbolically cleansing the environment itself.
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Presented in association with UCLA Film & Television Archive and supported in part by grants from the Getty Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The series is curated by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, Shannon Kelley, and Jacqueline Stewart.

Co-sponsored by Scribe Video Center, Temple University, Department of Film and Media Arts, and Philadelphia Weekly