“I invited the work of 3 women-filmmakers who share common ground via their journey through the portal that is the UWM film program and creatively through their explorations of radical black feminine identity and imagination. The subtitle of this program is a nod to feminist themes in author Alice Walker’s “The Temple of My Familiar” which examined the Black cultural experience, and sexual politics experienced through the stories of young black women and girls. These filmmakers each examine elements of the black feminine psyche & the temple of a familiar: Being.”

Program:
Strands by LJ Frizell, 1995
My Wolverine by LJ Frizell, 1998
The Water Will Carry Us by Gabrielle Tesfaye, 2018
My Love, Ethiopia by Gabrielle Tesfaye, 2019
The Masked Lover by Gabrielle Tesfaye, 2020
Mystic Lotus by Vertna West & Michelle Britto, 2018