Ntozake Shange
1948 - 2018Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Woodie King Jr.
Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins
This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights movement. Included are interviews with veterans of the theatrical world such as James Earl Jones and Ed Bullins.
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf
Oz Scott
Sarita Allen, Trazana Beverley
The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning landmark play. A breakthrough portrayal of black women's experiences in America, the story combines music, poetry and dance to celebrate their unique culture while painting a poignant portrait of their terrible struggles.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Poetry in Motion
Ron Mann
Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are the children of Walt Whitman and of Charles Olson, incantatory and oratorical, radical, sometimes incorporating contemporary political imagery. Black Mountain poets, the Beats, minimalists like John Cage, the wordless Four Horsemen, Tom Waits, and others capture aspects of poets as troubadours.
Poetry in Motion
