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Camille Billops

Camille Billops

Sculptor, filmmaker and educator Camille Billops (1933-2019, USA) gained her BA at California State College in 1960. She later studied at the City College of New York. From 1973 to 1987, Billops taught in the Arts faculty of Rutgers University in Newark. Not only a prolific sculptor, Billops began making films in the 1980s including Suzanne Suzanne (1982) and Finding Christa (1991), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival in 1992. She produced her films together with her husband, James Hatch, and their production company Mom and Pop Productions. Billops died in 2019.

Filmography

Suzanne, Suzanne (1981, co-dir), Older Woman and Love (1987, co-dir), Finding Christa (1991, co-dir), The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks (1994, co-dir), Take Your Bags (1998, short), A String of Pearls (2002, doc, co-dir)

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Camille Billops op IFFR

Take Your Bags
Cinema Regained

Camille Billops | 10' | USA | None
Essay on cultural heritage, its violent appropriation, and mixed feelings provoked by the works of Dalí or Picasso.
The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks
Cinema Regained

Camille Billops, James Hatch | 78' | USA | None
Polemically essayistic tour (de force) through the history and presence of racial segregation in the US.
Take Your Bags
main programme short

Camille Billops | 11' | USA | European premiere
Intelligent reflections on the fate of African slaves in America.
Finding Christa -Winnaar Sundance Festival

Camille Billops | 55' | USA | -

A very personal film in every respect. In emotional terms, Camille Billops neither spares herself or the viewer. In 1962 Billops took the painful decision…

Camille Billops

Filmography

Camille Billops op IFFR

Take Your Bags

The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks

Take Your Bags

Finding Christa -Winnaar Sundance Festival