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)