Directed by Haile Gerima
Inspired by a dream director Haile Gerima had after seeing Angela Davis handcuffed on television, Child of Resistance follows a woman (Barbara O. Jones) who has been imprisoned as a result of her fight for social justice. In a film that challenges linear norms of time and space, Gerima explores the woman’s dreams for liberation and fears for her people through a series of abstractly rendered fantasies. —Allyson Nadia Field
Producer/Screenwriter/Editor: H. Gerima. Cast: Barbara O. Jones, James Dougall.
16mm, b/w & color, 36 min.
