Films about films, filmmakers, and filmmaking.

A Black police officer and university president are interrogated by multiple white state officials after their failures to sufficiently comply with their respective institutions’ plans. An experiment in image, sound and subtitle, Another Other identifies these figures as collaborators with racist systems, even as those systems betray them. Content Warning: Flashing lights - 00:41-02:20

Another Other

Black Glass examines the entangled histories of visual technology and the genocide and expropriation of Indigenous populations by white settlers through a violent collision of image and sound by looking back to Eadweard Muybridge’s series of stereographs taken of the U.S. Army’s efforts against the Modoc Tribe of Northern California during the Modoc War. Content Warning: Flashing lights - 05:10-05:45

Black Glass

A journey through the memories of Brazilian filmmaker Afranio Vital. Between dreams and ruins, a cinematic life doesn’t end like this.

Two Niles (Dois Nilos)

all the love i could handle is a re-imagining of the filmmaker’s mother’s young diary, unraveling the raw complexities of Black motherhood, artistic ambition and the enduring sacrifices women have to make as mothers and artists. Based on the true family story of pioneer filmmaker Kathleen Collins (Losing Ground, 1982).

all the love i could handle

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