Film
A Dream is What You Wake Up From
- 2PM
Directed by Larry Bullard, Carolyn Johnson
1978, 50min
The everyday lives of three Black families with different approaches to their struggle for survival in the United States are represented through a mix of fiction and documentary scenes, a docudrama style inspired by the work of Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez. Filmmakers Larry Bullard and Carolyn Y. Johnson relied on a mix of documentary and drama to record families engaged in their day to day activities at home, at work and in school.
Directed by Monica J. Freeman
1977, 15min
Monica J. Freeman's serene portrait of Hamilton Heights at the peak of its brownstone revival is a testament to the cohesion and spirit of an African-American middle class fighting hard for its place in a depressed city, and, in the process, returning a grand old neighborhood to its rightful splendor.
Courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Directed by Young Filmmakers Foundation
1970, 1min
A montage of faces from the Harlem community in early the 1970s.
Courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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