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L.A. Rebellion: Your Children Come Back to You and Short Films

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

January 19, 2013

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L.A. REBELLION: CREATING A NEW BLACK CINEMA

Fragrance
Dir. Gay Abel-Bey, 1991, Digital video from ¾” videotape, b/w, 38 min.

Conflicted by duty and fear, George heads off to war, still unresolved over the larger question of whether African Americans should be fighting for justice at home or abroad in Gay Abel-Bey's drama.

Your Children Come Back to You
Dir. Alile Sharon Larkin, 1979, 16mm, b/w, 30 min. - New print!

Alile Sharon Larkin's film looks at a mother, a child, a better life on the horizon, and a bond that cannot be broken.

Shipley Street
Dir. Jacqueline Frazier, 1981, Digital video from 16mm, color, 25 min.

An African American family sends their child to an all-white parochial school, where she is confronted with harsh discipline and racist attitudes in this drama by Jacqueline Frazier.

Rich
Dir. S. Torriano Berry, 1982, 16mm, b/w, 22 min. - New print!

On the day of his high school graduation, an African American youth battles for self-determination as a convergence of forces attempt to shuttle him toward a future of lowered expectations in S. Torriano Berry's gritty, yet tender, character study.
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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