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Hour Glass

Hour Glass
Director: Haile Gerima
Year: 
1971
Format: 
Digital video, b/w & color

A young African American male rethinks his role as a basketball player for white spectators as he begins reading the works of Third World theoreticians like Frantz Fanon, and contemplates the work of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Angela Davis.  Highly metaphoric rather than realistic, Haile Gerima’s “Project One” (an early student film project at UCLA) visualizes through montage the process of coming to Black consciousness.  —Jan-Christopher Horak

Film Credits

Individual Role(s)
Haile Gerima Director
Producer
Writer
Cinematographer
Editor
Larry Clark Cinematographer
Mel Rosier Cast