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Madea short filmdocumentary

Original title: Madea
Year: 1973
Running time: 7 min.
Country: United States
Director: Ben Caldwell
Screenwriter: Amiri Baraka, Ben Caldwell
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Ben Caldwell
Producer: University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Genre: Documentary | Experimental Cinema. Short Film
Synopsis: 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.

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Madea (S)

1973

Ben Caldwell