Zeinabu irene Davis is an experimental filmmaker and producer. Her works include the documentary Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA, which chronicles the lives and work of Black filmmakers collectively known as the LA Rebellion, Compensation, an experimental feature film about a deaf woman who falls in love with a hearing man, Mother of The River, A Powerful Thang, and Cycles, her debut short film about a woman who performs African purification rituals as she anxiously waits to find out if she’s pregnant.
Zeinabu irene Davis
Films
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
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(2016)
Documents the lives and work of a small critically acclaimed group of Black filmmakers and media artists known as the Los Angeles Rebellion, a group brought together through shared experiences as students in the UCLA film production MFA program between 1967 and 1992.
Compensation
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(1999)
Flowing in and out of time, the life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
A Powerful Thang
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(1991)
An African American couple searches for intimacy and friendship.
Cycles
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(1989)
As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification.
Crocodile Conspiracy
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1986)
Conflicts arise when a middle-aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.
