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Art and business can be a tricky marriage.  When an artist makes a business of his craft, one important question is who should be the one who benefits?   The artist may argue that the creator should, of course, because that artistry wouldn’t otherwise exist if it weren’t for the person who created it.  The business or entity that helped the crea

Although actually her first film, Friday night’s screening of Alile Sharon Larkin’s UCLA works ended with Your Children Come Back to You (1979).

Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
December 16, 2011 - 9:25 am

Incompatible Worlds

The LA Rebellion series screenings on November 20th showcased filmmaker’s films on art and artists. The night opened with Elyseo Taylor’s Black Art, Black Artists and closed with Zeinabu irene Davis’s Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant.

Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
December 8, 2011 - 9:47 am

After nine weeks of screenings, I was somewhat surprised to see Alile Sharon Larkin’s Dreadlocks and the Three Bears (1991), a charming re-telling of the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.”  Where the other films of the series tend to be addressed to adult audiences, Dreadlocks and the Three Bears seems to have a child

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