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L.A. Rebellion: Bush Mama

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

Bush Mama
Dir. Haile Gerima, 1975/1979, 16mm, b/w, 97 min. - New print!
Introduced by director Haile Gerima

Bush Mama is Haile Gerima's powerfully moving look at the realities of inner city poverty and systemic disenfranchisement as experienced by Dorothy, a pregnant welfare recipient in Watts, played by the magnetic Barbara O. Jones. Motivated by the incarceration of her partner T.C. (Weathers) and the protection of her daughter and unborn child, Dorothy undergoes an ideological transformation from apathy to action.

Daydream Therapy
Dir. Bernard Nicolas, 1977, Digital Video, b/w and color, 8 min.

Bernard Nicolas' Daydream Therapy, set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” poetically envisions a hotel worker’s escape from workplace indignities through vivid fantasy

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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