The Dryden will screen Child of Resistance (Haile Gerima, U.S. 1972, 36 min., 16mm), and Bush Mama (Haile Gerima, U.S. 1975, 96 min., 16mm).

Inspired by a dream Haile Gerima had after seeing Angela Davis handcuffed on television, Child of Resistance is an abstract and symbolic film that follows a woman imprisoned as a result of her fight for social justice.

Bush Mama is Haile Gerima's powerfully moving look at the realities of inner city poverty and systemic disenfranchisement as experienced by Dorothy, a pregnant welfare recipient in Watts, played by the magnetic Barbara O. Jones. Motivated by the incarceration of her partner T. C. (Weathers) and the protection of her daughter and unborn child, Dorothy undergoes an ideological transformation from apathy to action.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Jan-18]