Co-presentation between LANGSTON, The Grand Illusion, Black Cinema Collective, and SIFF of the new 4k restoration of Camille Billops and James Hatch’s Family Trilogy: Suzanne, Suzanne | Finding Christa | A String of Pearls. Trailblazing artist and polymath Camille Billops (1933–2019) and her partner in life and work, James Hatch (1928–2020), left behind invaluable legacies as archivists who worked tirelessly to preserve records of Black cultural life. They also turned their unflinching camera on Billops’s own, often painful personal experiences. The films they made together, while grounded in the documentary, use a range of techniques including reenactments, dramatization, and satire to illuminate the ways in which race, gender, and class shape everyday life. In their Family Trilogy, they cover more than thirty years of troubling truths from Billops’s own family, tackling issues of drug addiction, abuse, unwanted pregnancy, and motherhood with fearless honesty. More info: Camille Billops: Family Trilogy Screening Tickets, Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
