ZEINABU iRENE DAVIS | USA | 1999 | 92 MIN | NR | ENGLISH, AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
A Deaf seamstress and an illiterate migrant worker build a life together amid the shifting social currents of early 20th century America. 80 years later, a Deaf artist and a hearing librarian search for love in a world of their own. Zeinabu irene Davis’s reimagination of a historic poem is one of the LA Rebellion’s most daring and experimental achievements.
Cast: Michelle A. Banks, John Earl Jelks, Nirvana Cobb
Part of the Philadelphia Film Society's limited series LA Rebellion.
Emerging from UCLA in the late 1960s through the Reagan era, a new generation of African and Caribbean American filmmakers forever changed the possibilities of independent cinema. Decades later, the LA Rebellion rises again, its visions of liberation, self-determination, and a better world as urgent as ever.
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