Synopsis:
In Ethiopia; there is a slow boiling of a feud between a wealthy Lord and a protester who feels he is mistreating his laborers. While the viewer gets to closely examine the culture, conversations, and lives of the locals who surround them.Read More »
Haile Gerima
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Haile Gerima – Mirt Sost Shi Amit aka Harvest: 3,000 Years (1975)
Drama1971-1980African CinemaArthouseEthiopiaHaile Gerima -
Haile Gerima – Bush Mama (1976)
1971-1980ArthouseDramaHaile GerimaUSABush Mama is the story of Dorothy and her husband T.C., a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a “hero’s welcome.” Instead he is falsely arrested and imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. Theirs is a world of welfare, perennial unemployment, and despair. To some, the film may appear bleak and nihilistic with its stark black-and-white photography, but its message is moving and distinct.Read More »
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Haile Gerima – Child of Resistance (1973)
1971-1980Haile GerimaPoliticsShort FilmUSASynopsis
“Jump Cut” wrote:
In CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1972), the camera follows the central figure, a woman dressed in a robe, hands bound, being transported through a barroom into a jail cell, directly outside of which later appears a jury box filled with jurors. Linearity is rejected as space is treated poetically, following the coordinates of a propulsive social idea — the social imprisonment of black women.Read More »