#black women directors

[blackgirlcinephiles]

This was cute as fuck!!! Perfect comfort watch for the weekend 🥰🥰

[limeshade]

An inscrutable, nightmarish, surreal dreamscape set to Modest Mussorgsky's famous composition of the same name, "A Night on Bald Mountain" is one of only a handful of short films ever created using pinscreen animation, a method in which shadows cast by miniscule steel pins positioned against a sidelit screen are manipulated to produce images of unique texture and dimension unparalleled in the field of traditional animation. Co-directors Alexandre Alexeieff (1901–1982) and his partner Claire Parker (1906–1981) built their first pinscreen device in 1931 with the assistance of Alexandre's then-wife, fellow artist Alexandra Grinevsky (1899–1976). Alexeieff and Parker then spent nearly two years animating this 8-minute film, which preceded the better-known cel-animated short "Night on Bald Mountain" from Disney's Fantasia (1940) by seven years. "A Night on Bald Mountain" represented the public debut of Alexeieff and Parker's pinscreen method.

A NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN (1933) "Une nuit sur le mont chauve" Directed and animated by Alexandre Alexeieff, Claire Parker

[inthedarktrees]

Simone Simon in Olivia (1951) dir. Jacqueline Audry

[travelinglikethelight]

BOOP! Blink Twice (2024) | Dir. Zoë Kravitz

[blkinfilm]

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

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[uspiria]

The Black Glove (1996) dir. Maria Beatty

[firelise]

Film & TV I Think About A Lot » The Fits (2015) dir. Anna Rose Holmer

You know it's gonna happen to us. Just thinking about what my sister said, you know? What do you mean? I just... I just wanna know how it feels. Aren't you scared? Yeah, but it doesn't matter. It'll happen to us anyway. It hasn't happened to any of the boys. Yeah, but we're not them.

[theersatzcowboy]

Eve's Bayou (1997)

In this (truly fantastic) coming-of-age classic, a girl living in an affluent Creole neighborhood in mid-century Louisiana reckons with her power of foresight and the impact it has on her family's buried secrets.

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Cinematographer: Amy Vincent

Starring: Jurnee Smollett, Lynn Whitfield, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Diahann Carroll, Debbi Morgan, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Branford Marsalis, and Lisa Nicole Carson.

[maggiecheungs]

“I dreamed of becoming a great philosopher. My ambition was cut short.”

SAINT OMER (2022) dir. Alice Diop

[artfilmfan]

Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf, 2023)

[belovedbluv]

Isaach De Bankolé in S'en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die) 1990, dir. Claire Denis

[bypreciousugo]

BOOTS

“After Nila, an insecure young woman, discovers a pair of talking heels, she must go on a journey of self-love & acceptance in order to show her ex-boyfriend that he made a mistake in dumping her.”

written & directed by Precious Ugochukwu (@bypreciousugo)

Premiering soon on YouTube.

[inthedarktrees]

Simone Simon in Olivia (1951) dir. Jacqueline Audry

[travelinglikethelight]

Naomi Ackie as Frida | Blink Twice (2024)

[blkinfilm]

Jason’s Lyric (1994)

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