Inspired by the trial of Angela Davis, Child of Resistance juxtaposes black-and-white footage of a Black female prisoner and her stream-of-consciousness voiceover with Felliniesque color imagery of this woman wandering through a dreamscape of sex- and drug-fueled debauchery and racial degradation.

Brick by Brick is a film essay about the displacement of Black families in a rapidly gentrifying Washington, D.C. at the turn of the 1980s. Although the documentary focuses on residents speaking for themselves, equally eloquent is the juxtaposition of the dispassionate excuses of bureaucrats with deserted apartment interiors.

This “computer film” updates the city symphony by electronically layering a list of Los Angeles places and names on top of the urban landscape as seen from a moving car.

This evocative excerpt from the Labyrinth Project’s DVD-ROM, based on a memoir by Carroll Parrot Blue, leads viewers on a rich visual and textual exploration of Blue’s family history and of the history of Houston’s Black community. Using her great-grandmother’s quilt as an interface, Blue and co-director Kristy H. A. Kang create plateaus of historical and narrative interest in a series of visual “panscapes,” constructed from original photographs, interviews, archival footage and the spoken word.

The political awakening of a young female typist is vividly portrayed through Melvonna Ballenger’s use of John Coltrane’s song, “After the Rain.”