The Films of Camille Billops and James Hatch: Part 1
- This is a past program
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series A String of Pearls: The Films of Camille Billops and James Hatch. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
Camille Billops and James Hatch were partners in life and work. Together, they created inventive, playful and expansive ways to tell personal and provocative stories about race, gender, class and the human experience and much of their work has been difficult to access. The first part of this two-night program includes Suzanne, Suzanne; A String of Pearls and Finding Christa (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival) — often referred to as The Family Trilogy — where Billops explores the legacy of physical abuse in her family, adoption and motherhood in a practical and unsentimental way, and speaks to four generations of Black men about their experience in the world.
Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
DCP, b&w, 30 min. Directors: Camille Billops, James Hatch.
Finding Christa (1991)
DCP, color, 55 min. Directors: Camille Billops, James Hatch.
A String of Pearls (2002)
DCP, color, 56 min. Directors: Camille Billops, James Hatch.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a division of UCLA Library, and presents its public programs in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer, among other venues. For more information about the Archive, visit cinema.ucla.edu.
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