Medea (1973)
Medea
Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still images of Africans and African Americans which function like flashes of history that the unborn child will inherit. Caldwell invokes Amiri Baraka’s poem “Part of the Doctrine” in this experimental meditation on art history, Black imagery, identity and heritage.
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Ben Caldwell
Writer
Writer
Ben Caldwell
Director
Director
Ben Caldwell
Cinematography
Cinematography
Amiri Baraka
Writer
Writer
Ben Caldwell
Producer
Producer
Ben Caldwell
Editor
Editor
