Movies: Zeinabu irene Davis

  • 1989
    Cycles

    Cycles (1989)

    Cycles

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    As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the spirits (Orishas in the Yoruba tradition), receiving much needed inspiration and assurance in a dream. T...

    Cycles
  • 2003
    Sisters in Cinema

    Sisters in Cinema (2003)

    Sisters in Cinema

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    Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors....

    Sisters in Cinema
  • 1999
    Compensation

    Compensation (1999)

    Compensation

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    The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s....

    Compensation
  • 1991
    A Powerful Thang

    A Powerful Thang (1991)

    A Powerful Thang

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    This innovative drama, set in Ohio, traces an African American couple's search for intimacy and friendship. The spirited, African-identified Yasmine Allen is a writer and single mother who has been dating saxophone teacher Craig Watkins for a month. ...

    A Powerful Thang
  • 1995
    Mother of the River

    Mother of the River (1995)

    Mother of the River

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    In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Through their friendship the young girl learns about independence, honor, humility and respect for others. MOTHER OF THE RI...

    Mother of the River
  • 2023
    Pandemic Bread

    Pandemic Bread (2023)

    Pandemic Bread

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    Luz, a Filipina interpreter, takes a call from Dr. Femi Balogun to discuss the end-of-life options for Remedios, an elderly Filipina woman in the hospital ICU during the early months of the COVID pandemic....

    Pandemic Bread
  • 1987
    Sweet Bird of Youth

    Sweet Bird of Youth (1987)

    Sweet Bird of Youth

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    A short film directed by Zeinabu irene Davis....

    Sweet Bird of Youth
  • 2016
    Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA

    Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA (2016)

    Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA

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    Part of a multi-platform project highlighted by an hour long documentary about black filmmakers who worked and studied at UCLA between 1965 and the 1990s....

    Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
  • 1989
    Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant

    Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant (1989)

    Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant

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    A portrait of pioneering Black woman trumpet player, Clora Bryant....

    Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant
  • 1988
    Define

    Define (1988)

    Define

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    Oblique, episodic meditations on the semiotics and ethics of ethnic female identity are accompanied by a blandly cynical narrator explaining how to “win an invitation to the dominant culture.” —Kevin McMahon...

    Define
  • 1991
    A Period Piece

    A Period Piece (1991)

    A Period Piece

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    In this video work, Zeinabu irene Davis and collaborator Quinta Seward perform a comic rap (old-school style) about the false promises in ads for feminine hygiene products. Lampooning the classic embarrassing scenarios (getting your period at the pr...

    A Period Piece
  • 1986
    Crocodile Conspiracy

    Crocodile Conspiracy (1986)

    Crocodile Conspiracy

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    Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba....

    Crocodile Conspiracy
  • 1983
    Re-creating Black Women's Media Image

    Re-creating Black Women's Media Image (1983)

    Re-creating Black Women's Media Image

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    The second short by Zeinabu irene Davis...

    Re-creating Black Women's Media Image
  • 1982
    Filmstatement

    Filmstatement (1982)

    Filmstatement

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    First film by Zeinabu irene Davis...

    Filmstatement