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The closing image of Bless Their Little Hearts is intentionally left open-ended, at least according to the director, Billy Woodberry. In an interview with Black Film Review, Woodberry explains, “I think the flight into another sort of realm—the grotesque, the ironic—that he [Charles Burnett] wrote was wonderful in some ways.
“She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails. It had a long strap, and she carried it slung across her shoulder.
Bernard Nicolas’ short film Gidget Meets Hondo opened Friday night’s screening.
For me, there is always a need to latch on to the familiar when I am watching or thinking about experimental film that, in truth, seems a counterintuitive approach because experimental film asks that we look outside of our realm of influence and endeavor to create meaning from the unfamiliar. Medea, a Project One film from Ben Caldwell
Creating an alternate cinematic voice to that of mainstream cinema was a defining characteristic of the L.A. Rebellion group of Black filmmakers. The consciousness of this goal is perhaps nowhere as acutely evident as in the work of Haile Gerima.
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