Motion Picture Genocide
An examination of 100 years of African Americans being murdered in movies.
Robert C. Banks
Director
Also Directed by Robert C. Banks
Experimental film inspired by a 1923 scenario written by Serbian poet Salomon Monny de Boully, with a musical score composed and performed by Tad Mike.
Drawing by hand directly on 16mm film, Banks challenges commercial appropriations of the image of Malcolm X.
Tale of life, love and the pursuit of happiness... in Cleveland. Nine vignettes about love: an old war hero defends the honor and memory of a long-lost love; a man's past comes to light in the midst of a perfect date; a recently separated paramedic gets more than he bargains for when he is thrust in the middle of a domestic dispute; a desperate man employs his friends in an elaborate scheme to meet the girl of his dreams, a recovering sex addict returns home to start a new life. There are thousands of stories of love, lust, loss and despair all over Cleveland-these are just a few of them.
