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Medea
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Medea

Jan 1, 1973
0h 7m
★ 0.0

Overview

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still images of Africans and African Americans which function like flashes of history that the unborn child will inherit. Caldwell invokes Amiri Baraka’s poem “Part of the Doctrine” in this experimental meditation on art history, Black imagery, identity and heritage.

Genres

Documentary
History

Production Companies

UCLA School of Film and Television

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