Mar 26 2025
6:30pm
Getty Center
Museum Lecture Hall
Free
Tickets are free but required for event entrance. Your event ticket will also serve as your Center entrance reservation. Please note there is a fee for parking.
About
Filmmaker Julie Dash joins curator LeRonn Brooks and directors Bryant Griffin and Kitty Hu for a night celebrating the groundbreaking artists of the L.A. Rebellion—the Black Asian Chicano and Native American artists and filmmakers who emerged from UCLA’s School of Theater Film and Television following the Watts Uprising in 1965. The filmmakers that came out of this historic moment—many of whom are included in the oral histories collection at the Getty Research Institute—developed revolutionary styles that upended Hollywood’s restrictive representation of minorities.
This event will include a screening of the Emmy-winning Artbound episode “L.A. Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement” (premiered on PBS in 2023) alongside Dash’s 1975 short film Four Women. Following the screenings there will be a conversation with the filmmakers on the historical and contemporary role of Black film as a revolutionary practice.
This program is part of the GRI’s ongoing Art on Screen series and the inaugural program for Black Visions: Film as Archive. Supporting the Getty Research Institute’s African American Art History Initiative (AAAHI) Black Visions features films by Black directors and artists—spanning time periods genres and artistic practices. The films center around ideas of memory history and documentation raising the questions: What does it mean to remember document narrate and record in Black visual culture? How does their interrogation intervene? How can filmmaking function as an archival practice?
Co-presented by PBS SoCal
DIRECTED BY: Bryant Terrell Griffin Kitty Hu. Airdate: October 18 2023. 56 mins
The conversation will be available on the Getty Research Institute YouTube channel following the event.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Getty, 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049, United States
