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Ever since I went to my first movie on my own in Kirkwood Cinema I knew I wanted to do something with film. Foregoing the journalism scholarship, I studied film at Columbia, the sister school to the Arts Institute in Chicago. The very first film I ever made was called “Blood Poem” (1990) made on super 8 film – based on a poem I wrote… (who knows what happened to it) and “My Tribe” (1991?) which I made with the help of Steven Winter, now a producer (See Tarnation (2003). Both films led to stuff like “Cultural Skit-zo-frenia” and “Memory Tracks”, which fused poetics with social commentary. Also managed to get a commission to do a few shorts on Channel Four(UK) working with two different poets on 6 different shorts. Oh yeah! Apart from appearing in my own films, I had a small part in Go Fish (1994 ) directed by Rose Troche, who had appeared in my film “Cultural Skit-zo-frenia”. Needless to say, Hollywood never came calling…Oh well. |
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| MEMORY TRACKS 8 mins, Experimental  |
Great Britain (1996)  |
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A woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown follows the afroed spirit of a revolutionary past through London's streets: Brixton and Portobello. I used the camera as the means for reflexive analysis of black female subjectivity and performances of resistance in urban spaces, specifically within the context of London's Portobello and Brixton.
ICA (UK), 1997 NFT (UK), And Experimental Film Festival, NY, US 1998, Women in the Directors Chair, Chicago, 1997,"FEMALE GEOGRAPHIES" Austrian Institute of Art 2002, Women in the Director's Chair, 1997, Outfest Legacy Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive  |
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| SHADES 13 mins, Experimental  |
USA (1994) |
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SHADES explores the issues around dark and light skin in the African American community. Drawing on erotic imagery and the relation between a light skinned woman and a darker skinned Lesbian, this video questions what exactly is meant by "Black enough"
New York Experimental Film Festival, Bite the Mango Film Festival (Birmingham), Finland Film Festival, Pandemonium, 1997 African American Filmmakers ICA (UK), 1997 Cine-Women Experimental Film Festival, UK 1997London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Saint-Gervais-Geneve Festival |
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| INTRO TO CULTURAL SKITZO-FRENIA 10 mins, Experimental  |
USA (1993) |
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An experimental documentary exploring the lives, views of people who don't fit or live outside the definitions regulating race ("i.e. black enough"), gender, or sexuality.
Golden Gate Award, Prix du Public, Best Documentary, Creteil Films de Femmes International Festival, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 1996, Berlin Int’l Film Festival, 1997 African American Filmmakers ICA (UK),Women in Film Festival, Princeton University |
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