Film
Older Women and Love + A String of Pearls
Dirs. Camille Billops & James Hatch, 26min, DCP
Billops’ eighty-something aunt takes a lover half her age, catalyzing this exploration of women’s sexual independence, romance, and masculinity that unfolds through interviews and slice-of-life footage of a party at Billops and Hatch’s home.
Dirs. Camille Billops & James Hatch, 56min, DCP
Billops highlights four generations of men in her family to trace the ways that unemployment, violence, and the loss of their own fathers on the ways that a new generation takes shape.
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Camille Billops creates piercing explorations of her own family’s history in her most celebrated works, about mothers and daughters struggling to both move on and reconnect.
Two of Billops’ most thrillingly free-form works offer a satirical journey through American racism that riffs on Dante’s Inferno and an exploration of the stolen cultural heritage of African-Americans.