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Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
December 8, 2011 - 9:47 am

After nine weeks of screenings, I was somewhat surprised to see Alile Sharon Larkin’s Dreadlocks and the Three Bears (1991), a charming re-telling of the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.”  Where the other films of the series tend to be addressed to adult audiences, Dreadlocks and the Three Bears seems to have a child

Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
December 5, 2011 - 2:57 pm

Writer, director Charles Burnett’s fourteen minute short The Horse (1973) is a visually romantic and eloquent film.  It has been described as a coming-of-age tale though it feels more like a peek into the collision of two worlds.

Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
December 5, 2011 - 2:42 pm

Defining a Black Aesthetic in Black Art, Black Artists

Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
December 5, 2011 - 2:37 pm

“We were scarred in so many ways.” —Julie Dash, The Diary of an African Nun Q&A (11/19/2011)

During the L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema Symposium, panelist Ed Guerrero, professor of film and African American studies at New York University, discussed Black film then and now. He opened by addressing the controversial comparison of the films from the L.A. Rebellion to those of the Blaxploitation era.

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