Camille Billops
Still: Take Your BagsSculptor, 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)
More info: Wikipedia, Camille Billops
Camille Billops op IFFR
Finding Christa -Winnaar Sundance Festival
55'
VS
IFFR 1992
Take Your Bags
11'
VS
IFFR 1999
The KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks
Polemisch essayistische tour (de force) door de geschiedenis en de aanwezigheid van raciale segregatie in de VS.
78'
Verenigde Staten
IFFR 2023
Take Your Bags
Essay over cultureel erfgoed, de gewelddadige toe-eigening ervan, en gemengde gevoelens, opgeroepen door de werken van Dalí of Picasso.
10'
Verenigde Staten
IFFR 2023