Six 1970s EAI video works are experiments in troubling the materiality and ideology of the image through techniques that include montage, explosions, sledgehammers, mirrors and talking to the camera.
Bill Gunn manufactured a seductive and radical Trojan Horse with his highly-stylized, experimental take on a vampire film. Boldly misappropriating the funds intended to deliver just another formulaic Blaxploitation horror film to Hollywood, he instead offered a meditation on eroticism, Afro-diasporic identities, religion and power. Ganja & Hess is an aesthetic feast, pairing the regal Marlene Clark and Duane Jones (Night of the Living Dead) in a narrative that involves a cursed dagger, murder, anthropology and madness. An unprecedentedly complex and intimate depiction of Black sexuality, the film is also an exercise in cultural autonomy.
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