The closing image of Bless Their Little Hearts is intentionally left open-ended, at least according to the director, Billy Woodberry. In an interview with Black Film Review, Woodberry explains, “I think the flight into another sort of realm—the grotesque, the ironic—that he [Charles Burnett] wrote was wonderful in some ways.
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November 14, 2011 - 10:21 am
November 14, 2011 - 10:18 am
“She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails. It had a long strap, and she carried it slung across her shoulder.
November 14, 2011 - 10:10 am
Bernard Nicolas’ short film Gidget Meets Hondo opened Friday night’s screening. The film, made in response to the LAPD’s murder of Eulia Love in 1979, is Nicolas’ second film; his first (or Project One in UCLA terms), Daydream Therapy, can be streamed online.
November 14, 2011 - 9:56 am
For me, there is always a need to latch on to the familiar when I am watching or thinking about experimental film that, in truth, seems a counterintuitive approach because experimental film asks that we look outside of our realm of influence and endeavor to create meaning from the unfamiliar. Medea, a Project One film from Ben Caldwell, presents a history that I can’t hope to kno
November 4, 2011 - 4:21 pm
Creating an alternate cinematic voice to that of mainstream cinema was a defining characteristic of the L.A. Rebellion group of Black filmmakers. The consciousness of this goal is perhaps nowhere as acutely evident as in the work of Haile Gerima.
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