Filmmaker Ben Caldwell developed his practice in the 1970s as part of the “L.A. Rebellion.” He is an arts educator and founder of KAOS Network, a community arts center providing training in digital media arts. In this program of short films, Caldwell’s Medea (1973) and I & I: An African Allegory (1979) along with Barbara McCullough’s Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification (1979) (cinematography by Caldwell) will be screened. Afterwards Hammer Museum Assistant Curator Erin Christovale moderates a conversation between Caldwell and McCullough. Digital presentation courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is a project of by UCLA Film & Television Archive developed as part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.
Free Screening.
Screening and Conversation: Ben Caldwell, Barbara McCullough and Erin Christovale
