L.A. REBELLION | HOUr glass (1971)

A young African American male rethinks his role as a basketball player for white spectators as he begins reading the works of Third World theoreticians like Frantz Fanon, and contemplates the work of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Angela Davis. Highly metaphoric rather than realistic, Haile Gerima’s “Project One” (an early student film project at UCLA) visualizes through montage the process of coming to Black consciousness. For more information about the L.A. Rebellion film movement, visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive's web resource: cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion