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  • Ashes and Embers (1982)

    Haile Gerima

    Ashes and Embers is about a disillusioned, black Vietnam War veteran who finds it difficult to readjust to civilian life. This image expresses both the film's hope for the future and its ideological journey, through the image of Black Nationalist icon Angela Davis.


    Film, 120 min

  • Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)

    Billy Woodberry

    The film concerns the daily struggles of a working-class, African American family, in which the father is unemployed and unable to get a job, despite repeated attempts. He fishes not for pleasure but to put food on the table.


    Film, 80 min

  • Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)

    Billy Woodberry

    Nate Hardman and Kaycee Moore star in the film Bless Their Little Hearts (1984), directed by UCLA alumnus Billy Woodberry. The work was recently restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive and is featured in the Archive’s upcoming public film exhibition, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, which explores a key artistic movement of Los Angeles-based African American and African filmmakers who met while attending UCLA from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The film exhibition screens October 7–December 17, 2011, at the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s theatrical home, the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood Village, California. The exhibition will then tour throughout North America during 2012 and 2013. Info: www.cinema.ucla.edu This film concerns the daily struggles of a working-class, African American family, in which the father is unemployed and unable to get a job, despite repeated attempts. The struggle leads to tensions with his wife, seen here with him.


    Film, 80 min

  • Emma Mae (1976)

    Jamaa Fanaka

    Emma Mae is a young country woman from the South who comes to live in Los Angeles, demonstrating surprising resilience and strength in the face of racism and male chauvinism from her black brothers. This image is a portrait of Emma Mae.


    Film

  • Emma Mae (1976)

    Jamaa Fanaka

    Emma Mae is a young country woman from the South who comes to live in Los Angeles, demonstrating surprising resilience and strength in the face of racism and male chauvinism from her black brothers. This image shows Emma Mae fighting with another woman over who is the boss on a project they are working on.


    Film, 100 min

  • Emma Mae (1976)

    Jamaa Fanaka

    Emma Mae is a young country woman from the South who comes to live in Los Angeles, demonstrating surprising resilience and strength in the face of racism and male chauvinism from her black brothers. This image shows Jesse, her fiance, caught in bed with another woman.


    Film, 100 min

UCLA Film & Television Archive

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

This major film exhibition explores a key artistic movement of Los Angeles-based African American and African filmmakers whose careers began at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where they met as students from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Charles Burnett, Larry Clark, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Alile Sharon Larkin, Jacqueline Frazier, Jamaa Fanaka, and others carried out the first sustained and geographically specific undertaking by black artists to forge a cinema practice that would be responsive to the lives and concerns of African American communities and the African diaspora. Approximately 40 film and video works, most never before screened theatrically, will be accompanied by lectures and discussions, many featuring the filmmakers in person.
10/07/2011 – 12/17/2011
UCLA Film & Television Archive
302 East Melnit Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095