Films of the LA Rebellion

As a critical mass of filmmakers of color entered UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television between the 1960s and 1980s, a movement emerged that would reshape the nation’s landscape of independent filmmaking. Inspired by Italian neorealism and French New Wave, and energized by the political cinemas emerging across Latin America and Africa, these student filmmakers established a model of film production attuned to the urgent social and political landscape of Los Angeles. Work by the artists of the LA Rebellion continues to influence the aesthetic and political possibilities of Black cinema today. This six-part series showcases both well-known and rarely screened titles from the movement, including new 4K restorations of Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, presented with new open captions, and Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep.

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