Medea (1973)

Overview : Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still images of Africans and African Americans which function like flashes of history that the unborn child will inherit. Caldwell invokes Amiri Baraka’s poem “Part of the Doctrine” in this experimental meditation on art history, Black imagery, identity and heritage.

Release Date : January 1, 1973

Runtime : 7m

Genre : Documentary, History  

Companies : UCLA School of Film and Television

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : black people, medea, african, african american