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Hour Glass

  • Hour Glass
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1971
Format : Short
Running time : 13 (in minutes)
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/hour-glass

The story of a young basketball player contemplating his fate as a gladiator.

A young African-American male rethinks his role as a basketball player for the white establishment as he reads the works of Third World theoreticians, such as Franz Fanon, in Haile Gerima's "Project One" film.

A film by Haile Gerima

USA, 1971, Drama, 13mins38s, 16mm, B&W and color

starring Mel Rosier

Haile Gerima's first student film



Director, Producer, Writer, Editor: Haile Gerima

Cinematographers
Haile Gerima
Larry Clark

Cast
Mel Rosier

Available for research at UCLA

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