Movies: Zeinabu irene Davis
- 2023
Pandemic Bread (2023)
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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....
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- 1989
Cycles (1989)
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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...
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- 1991
A Powerful Thang (1991)
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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. ...
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- 2003
Sisters in Cinema (2003)
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Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors....
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- 1988
Define (1988)
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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...
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- 1999
Compensation (1999)
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The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s....
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- 1989
Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant (1989)
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A portrait of pioneering Black woman trumpet player, Clora Bryant....
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- 1982
Filmstatement (1982)
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First film by Zeinabu irene Davis...
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- 1991
A Period Piece (1991)
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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...
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- 1969
Stars of the Northern Sky (1969)
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A hybrid documentary telling the stories of abolitionists Sojourner Truth, Phyllis Wheatley and Marie Joseph Angelique....
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- 1983
Re-creating Black Women's Media Image (1983)
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The second short by Zeinabu irene Davis...
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- 1995
Mother of the River (1995)
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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...
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- 2016
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA (2016)
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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....
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- 1986
Crocodile Conspiracy (1986)
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This charming tale focuses on Willa Ledbetter, an African American middle-aged school teacher in Watts, and her longing to visit her parent's homeland of Cuba. In the face of unexpected political and familial pressures to forego her dream, Willa stru...
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- 1987
Sweet Bird of Youth (1987)
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A short film directed by Zeinabu Irene Davis....
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