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L.A. Rebellion: Black Art, Black Artists: 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

Bellydancing – A History & an Art
Dir. Alicia Dhanifu, 1979, Digital Video from 1” videotape, color, 22 min.

Alicia Dhanifu, who appears in Jamaa Fanaka’s Emma Mae, constructs a rigorous history of belly dancing — its roots and history, forms and meanings.

Festival of Mask
Dir. Don Amis, 1982, Digital video from16mm, color, 25 min.

In this documentary by Don Amis about the Craft & Folk Art Museum’s annual festival, L.A.’s diverse racial and ethnic communities (African, Asian, Latin American), express themselves through a shared traditional form.

Black Art, Black Artists
Dir. Elyseo J. Taylor, 1971, Digital video from 16mm, color, 16 min.

Director Elyseo Taylor visually surveys black art since the 19th century, punctuated with jazz and blues selections, and a running commentary by woodcut printer Van Slater.

Four Women
Dir. Julie Dash, 1975, 16mm, color, 7 min. - New print!

Dancer Linda Martina Young portrays the four Black women described in Julie Dash's dance film set to Nina Simone’s stirring ballad.

Define
Dir. O.Funmilayo Makarah, 1988, Digital video, color, 5 min.

O.Funmilayo Makarah’s oblique, episodic meditation on the semiotics and ethics of ethnic female identity is accompanied by a blandly cynical narrator explaining how to “win an invitation to the dominant culture.”

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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