Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich

A Quality of Light

Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich

Vinie Burrowes, Nadira Foster Williams

"A Quality of Light" reaches into the filmmaker's familial lineage of black women artists. This film examines the under-told story of the haunted artist who also inhabits the unique political position of being black and a woman. The film applies principles of music theory and West African performance structure in their construction.

Outfox the Grave

Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich

A short film and a spell of protection.

Footnote to the West

Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich

Keisha White, Olamide Candide Johnson

A dreamy fragment about the end of the world. A black girl wanders into a Hollywood western and mourns for the dead.

Spit on the Broom

Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich

Muriel Miller, Mikeshia McPhaul

The film explores the history of the United Order of Tents, a clandestine organization of black women in the 1840s, during the height of the Underground Railroad (a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the US during the early to mid-1800s, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada).