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Bush Mama
February 4, 2022 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE!
PRESENTED ON 16MM FILM!
Gerima blends narrative fiction, documentary, surrealism and political modernism in his unflinching story about a pregnant welfare recipient in Watts. Bush Mama is an unrelenting and powerfully moving look at the realities of inner city poverty and systemic disenfranchisement of African Americans. Feb. 5 screening followed by a discussion.
(Haile Gerima, USA, English, 97min, 1979, 16mm)