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Medea

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Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still images of Africans and African Americans which function like flashes of history that the unborn child will inherit. Caldwell invokes Amiri Baraka’s poem “Part of the Doctrine” in this experimental meditation on art history, Black imagery, identity and heritage.

Directed byBen Caldwell

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 7m
Language
EN
Released
January 1, 1973
Studios
UCLA School of Film and Television

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Directed by
Ben Caldwell
Ben Caldwell
Written by
Ben Caldwell
Ben Caldwell
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka
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Ben Caldwell
Ben Caldwell

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