Sunday | April 21, 2013 7:00 pm

A Different Image

Screening on Film

Directed by Alile Sharon Larkin.
With Margot Saxton-Federella, Adisa Anderson.
US, 1982, 16mm, color, 51 min.
Print source: UCLA

A touching look at young people settling into adulthood in a world crisscrossed by sexual, generational and racial divides, A Different Image has come to be recognized as a landmark of Black feminist filmmaking in the thirty years since its release. A young professional woman in Los Angeles struggles to be seen as more than a sexual object, while her flirtatious co-worker eventually comes to realize that he must reconcile his expectations and experiences with hers. The film makes its point as much through its use of montage, juxtaposing various kinds of photographs of a wide range of women, as through its narrative sequences.

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Cycles

Directed by Zeinabu Irene Davis .
With Stephanie Ingram .
US, 1989, 16mm, black & white, 17 min.
Print source: UCLA

As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. This intimate short film incorporates still images and stop-motion animation into a portrait of a woman and her home.

Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification

Directed by Barbara McCullough .
With Yolanda Vidato .
US, 1979, 35mm, black & white, 6 min.
Print source: UCLA

Barbara McCullough’s strikingly beautiful experimental film, inspired by a friend’s nervous breakdown, presents an abandoned area of Watts as emblematic of Black desolation while also suggesting that it can be reclaimed as sacred ground.

Preservation funded with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant Program funded by The Film Foundation

Preservation funded with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant Program funded by The Film Foundation.