Film
LA Rebellion Short Films
- 7PM
Preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Dir. Monona Wali
1982, 38min, 16mm
Monona Wali’s vigorously experimental UCLA thesis film deploys a complex meta-narrative strategy as it follows a young African-American news reporter whose life and art collide when she takes to the streets of Watts to make a film about the black community.
Dir. Alile Sharon Larkin
1982, 51min, 16mm
A black art student sets out to reclaim her body and self-worth from Western patriarchal beauty standards in this groundbreaking work by Alile Sharon Larkin, shot by fellow LA Rebellion trailblazer Charles Burnett.
Dir. Julie Dash
1982, 34min, 16mm
Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) explores race and representation in World War II-era Hollywood via the story of a black movie studio executive passing as white and the African-American singer she hires to dub the voice of a white actress. What plays out is a profound, haunting deconstruction of Hollywood’s power to shape racial mythologies.
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