This compilation of shorts celebrates black culture: Four Women (Julie Dash), Black Art, Black Artists (Elyseo J. Taylor), Define (O. Funmilayo Makarah), Bellydancing—A History & An Art (Alicia Dhanifu), and Festival of Mask (Don Amis). (75 mins)
Beginning in the late 1960s, a number of promising African and African American students entered the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, recruited under a concerted initiative to be more responsive to various communities of color. From that first class through the late 1980s these filmmakers were the first to forge a sustained alternative black cinema practice in the United States. They created fascinating, provocative, and visionary films that have earned an impressive array of awards and accolades at festivals around the world, and have blazed new paths into the commercial market.
"A priceless cinematic time capsule."—LA Weekly
Tickets: $5.50 for BAM/PFA members, UC Berkeley Students; $9.50 for Adults; $6.50 for UC Berkeley faculty, non UCB students, seniors, youth, and disabled
