Larry Clark

Passing Through

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Nathaniel Taylor, Clarence Muse

Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters who control the music industry, including clubs and recording studios, Warmack searches for his mentor and grandfather, the legendary jazz musician Poppa Harris.

As Above, So Below

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Billy Middleton, Gail Peters

The film opens in 1945 with a young boy playing in his Chicago neighborhood, and then follows the adult Jita-Hadi as a returning Marine with heightened political consciousness.

The Horse

Charles Burnett

Gordon Houston, Maury Wright

This critically acclaimed 1973 short is about an aristocratic white farming family who has a horse that is being put away, by the father of a young black boy named William. William cares for said horse in its last moments, as the male family members eagerly wait for his dad to arrive.

Cutting Horse

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Albert Harris, Cesar Flores

Western melodrama about an aging cowboy revisiting his past.

Tamu

Larry Clark

A young African American man drives through South Central thinking about revolution, Malcolm X, racism, capitalism, and war in Vietnam. Midway through, the film switches over to the thoughts of a young African American woman who is thinking about revolution and Angela Davis.