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L.A. Rebellion: Child of Resistance and Short Films

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

January 26, 2013

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L.A. REBELLION: CREATING A NEW BLACK CINEMA

Brick by Brick
Dir. Shirikiana Aina, 1982, Digital video from 16mm, color, 33 min.

Shirikiana Aina exposes the gentrification of poor Black neighborhoods in late-Seventies Washington D.C. through compelling personal testimony, including participants in the Seaton Street project, in which tenants successfully united to purchase buildings.

L.A. In My Mind
Dir: O.Funmilayo Makarah, 2006, Digital video, color, 4 min.

A captivating montage of notable Los Angeles sites, laced with free-floating names of places and people and accompanied by street noises, make up O.Funmilayo Makarah’s delightful and personal canon of spiritually sustaining quantities.

Child of Resistance
Dir. Haile Gerima, 1972, 16mm, b/w and color, 36 min.

Inspired by a dream Haile Gerima had after seeing Angela Davis handcuffed on television, Child of Resistance is an abstract and symbolic film that follows a woman imprisoned as a result of her fight for social justice.

Rain
Dir. Melvonna Ballenger, 1978, Digital Video from ¾” videotape, color, 16 min.

The political awakening of a female typist is vividly portrayed through Melvonna Ballenger’s use of John Coltrane’s song, “After the Rain.”

The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing (excerpt)
Dir. Carroll Parrott Blue, Kristy H.A. Kang; The Labyrinth Project, 2003, Digital video adapted from DVD-ROM, color, 10 min.

This evocative work derived from the Labyrinth Project’s DVD-ROM, and based on a memoir by Carroll Parrott Blue, leads viewers on a rich visual and textual exploration of Blue’s family history, and of the history of Houston’s black community.

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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