CH: Film Movements - The LA Rebellion
“Emancipate the Image”
Film Movement Examples:
French New Wave
Japanese New Wave
Soviet Montage
Italian Neo-realism
German Expressionism
Dogme 95
New Queer Cinema
Poetic Realism
Czech New Wave
New Hollywood
etc…
Film movement: A group of films over a span of time that share stylistic and production trends, usually with the goal of changing the direction of filmmaking within a nation, culture, or studio system.
Film movements can include many genres
-Film movements are also one of the many reasons as to how film genres change over time.
LA Rebellion
Focuses on the group of Black filmmakers who attended UCLA from the late 60s to mid 80s.
They rebelled against traditional representation and exclusion of black filmmakers in the American Studio System
Charles Burnett
Jamaa Fanaka
The Watts Uprising:
August 11th 1965. Los Angeles
Marquette Frye Arrested
6 days. 34 dead, 1032 injured. Most civilians
13,900 national guardsman, 2,000 police deployed
Rapturous product of tension between police and black communities.
UCLA and commitment to educational diversity:
Media production education initiative led by Elyseo Taylor and later Teshome Gabriel
Ethno-communication
Curriculum to foster “community development”
Growth of diversity in enrolling students
L.A. Rebellion encapsulated a multitude of ideas and topics ranging from:
African Diaspora
Class exploitation
The Northern Migration
Interracial Class Differences
No matter the topic, all the filmmakers sought to reject traditional norms in depicting black people and their communities.
Third World Filmmakers
“Cinema of decolonization and for liberation.” Tashome Gabriel
Filmmakers of the movement
Charles Burnett
Julie Dash
Ben Caldwell
Melvonna Ballenger
Larry Clarke
Zeinabu irene Davis
Jamaa Fanaka
Billy Woodbury
Haile Gerima
Alile Sharon Larkin
Barbara-O
Sy Richardson
Angela Burnett
Elyseo Taylor
Tashome Gabriel
Allyson Nadia Field