Insurgent Sisters: Women of the L.A. Rebellion and Beyond—Of Ritual and Remembrance + Post Screening Conversation with Storme' Bright Sweet, Cauleen Smith, and Rikkí Wright

In this series, we celebrate films of the “Insurgent Sisters” of the L.A. Rebellion film movement that emerged at UCLA Film School and the work they have made and inspired since, showcasing films by Black women and non-binary artists that perform a recovery of Blackness in Los Angeles, interrogating and transgressing the conventions of cinema along the way.

Of Ritual And Remembrance, the second of two shorts programs in the series, features work from Barbara McCullough, Martine Syms, Storme' Bright Sweet, Danielle Dickerson, Omah Diegu, Rikkí Wright, Imelda Sheen, Cauleen Smith, O.Funmilayo Makarah, and Alima Lee.

Recoveries of Spirit 

Total Runtime: 120 min

With Post Screening Conversation with: Storme' Bright Sweet, Cauleen Smith, Rikkí Wright, and more. 

Anita Addison–Savannah (1989)

Omah Diegu–I Am (1982)

Martine Syms–SHE MAD: Laughing Gas (2016)

Rikkí Wright–a ritual of sisterhood (2019)

Imelda Sheen–Forbidden Joy (1972)

Alima Lee–flesh to spirit (2019)

Storme' Bright Sweet–The Single Parent: Images in Black (1978)

Cauleen Smith–Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (1992) 

O.Funmilayo Makarah–L.A. in my mind...  (2006)

Danielle Dickerson–People! of the Earth (2011)

Barbara Mccullough–Fragments of Barbara McCullough (1980)