Filmography
Featuring well-known L.A. Rebellion works alongside rarely seen student films, this body of work represents not only the originality of the individuals whose names are on them, but a collective vision as well. Across the two decades during which they made their presence felt at UCLA, and in the decades since, individual L.A. Rebellion artists have focused on diverse topics and responded to evolving political and artistic thought through their work. Explorations of class, considerations of historical legacies, stories attentive to concerns of local communities and appreciations of other Black arts are only some of the areas of exploration. The films also display a diversity of forms, from irreverent reconfigurations of well-worn genre types, to groundbreaking experiments with cinematic language. Certain works, long out of circulation, represent rediscoveries and will certainly lead to much future scholarship.
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"Finding Buck McHenry" A young boy gets cut from his Little League baseball them, decides to start his own team and talks the school custodian into being the coach. The man's expertise and wisdom lead the boy to suspect he's a forgotten Negro League legend. Directed by Charles Burnett.
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2000 |
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Fired-Up or How I Turned My Rage Into Art O.Funmilayo Makarah cross the country interviewing people about their reactions to the "not guilty" verdict in the 1992 Rodney King beating case and the resulting unrest in Los Angeles. |
2006 |
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Four Women Dancer Linda Martina Young portrays the four Black women described in Julie Dash's dance film set to Nina Simone’s stirring ballad. |
1975 |
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Fragrance 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. |
1991 |
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"Funny Valentines" A woman runs from a troubled marriage in New York, returning to her home in the Deep South and the cousin she left behind. Directed by Julie Dash. |
1999 |
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Gidget Meets Hondo Filmed by Bernard Nicolas in response to the LAPD’s shooting of Eulia Love in 1979, Gidget Meets Hondo asks whether such police brutality would be tolerated if the victim were a middle-class white woman. |
1980 |
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The Glass Shield An enthusiastic black rookie cop is gradually corrupted in the Los Angeles Police Department by a steady onslaught of racism. Directed by Charles Burnett. |
1994 |
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Grey Area An African-American woman reporter for a local television station who must seemingly compromise her political principles to keep her job, just as a former Black Panther Party member gets out of prison, only to realize that the old comrades in the struggle have moved on with their lives. |
1982 |
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Happy Valentine's Day Four women college students at Mt. Holyoke discuss their romances (lesbian and straight) with each other over the two days leading up to the Valentine’s Day mixer. Directed by Gay Abel-Bey. |
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Harvest: 3,000 Years Haile Gerima’s first feature work set in Africa employs visions of his native Ethiopia to construct a post-colonial allegory of class exploitation. Depicting a peasant family toiling under a wealthy feudal landlord, the film blends numerous narrative techniques to create an impassioned work of haunting beauty. |
1976 |
