Hour Glass
Hour Glass (1971)
Director:
Year: 1971
Format: Digital video, b/w & color, 14 min.
A young African American male rethinks his role as a basketball player for white spectators as he begins reading the works of Third World theoreticians like Frantz Fanon, and contemplates the work of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Angela Davis. Highly metaphoric rather than realistic, Haile Gerima’s “Project One” (an early student film project at UCLA) visualizes through montage the process of coming to Black consciousness.
—Jan-Christopher Horak
Available for research at UCLA
Film Credits
| Individual | Role(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| Haile Gerima |
Director Producer Writer Cinematographer Editor |
|
| Larry Clark | Cinematographer | |
| Mel Rosier | Cast |
