Girl on Shoulders
Window on Your Present is Cinqué Lee's first feature film, which he wrote and directed in the late 1980s. The film takes place in a world where color and love do not exist. The people who live in this dreary world have nothing to live for and often end up taking their own lives. However, two unlikely lovers discovery that there is something else that is special that exists outside of their horrid world.
The Flooded Playground is a digitally composed animated fairy tale about a young child who resides in a house which has a darkly disturbing force that oppresses him in body, mind and spirit. The wallpaper torments him, a malevolent wind deters him from eating, and thorned vines erupt in his bedroom. A sudden cataclysm throws him into a craggy wonderland where he wanders into deep forests and through his inner inferno in a quest to mend his damaged spirit. Thematically, this film is concerned with the amorphous fears, covert brutality, yearnings, and magical thinking of childhood, the resiliency of the human spirit, and the meaning of home. Lush visual images depict the emotional complexities of childhood - the combination of helplessness and invincibility, sweetness and brutality, and the edge where lines between the real and the imaginary are blurred.
Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food.
Eula Peazant
Un vistazo a la cultura Gullah de las islas de la costa de Carolina del Sur y Georgia, donde las culturas africanas se mantuvieron hasta bien entrado el siglo XX y fue uno de los últimos bastiones de estas costumbres en los Estados Unidos. Ambientada en 1902.
Doris Witherspoon
Los estudiantes de una Universidad de afroamericanos en el sur de los Estados Unidos, están enfrentados. El grupo que lidera Julian tiene una estructura militarista y conservadora y se sienten totalmente integrados en la sociedad americana. El grupo de Dap es activista y lucha en una batalla contra la administración y la dominante indiferencia de sus compañeros estudiantes hacia las raíces afroamericanas. Las dos posturas ideológicas serán difíciles de conciliar. (FILMAFFINITY)
