Alile Sharon Larkin

An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating the friendship of a male office mate, she aspires to a relationship where romance is not a factor, seeking someone who can "see her as she is," rather than see only what he wants to see. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

Part of a multi-platform project highlighted by an hour long documentary about black filmmakers who worked and studied at UCLA between 1965 and the 1990s.

An early student work directed at UCLA by Alile Sharon Larkin and submitted as her "Project One." Larkin visualizes a mental ward as a possible equivalent to prison incarceration for women of color. –UCLA Film & Television Archive

A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

A jubilant affirmation of self-identity, Creating a Different Image is Alile Sharon Larkin in her own words defiantly declaring, "I am an artist." Learn more about the personal life and professional aspirations of the filmmaker behind Your Children Come Back to You (1979), A Different Image (1982), Dreadlocks and the Three Bears (1991) and many more. —Samuel B. Prime

The story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears is told from an African American perspective in this short film written and produced by Alile Sharon Larkin.

An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating the friendship of a male office mate, she aspires to a relationship where romance is not a factor, seeking someone who can "see her as she is," rather than see only what he wants to see. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating the friendship of a male office mate, she aspires to a relationship where romance is not a factor, seeking someone who can "see her as she is," rather than see only what he wants to see. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

An early student work directed at UCLA by Alile Sharon Larkin and submitted as her "Project One." Larkin visualizes a mental ward as a possible equivalent to prison incarceration for women of color. –UCLA Film & Television Archive

An early student work directed at UCLA by Alile Sharon Larkin and submitted as her "Project One." Larkin visualizes a mental ward as a possible equivalent to prison incarceration for women of color. –UCLA Film & Television Archive

An early student work directed at UCLA by Alile Sharon Larkin and submitted as her "Project One." Larkin visualizes a mental ward as a possible equivalent to prison incarceration for women of color. –UCLA Film & Television Archive

A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

The story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears is told from an African American perspective in this short film written and produced by Alile Sharon Larkin.

The film uses interviews and photographs to tell the story of librarian and poet Fluci Moses, who is herself on-camera most of the time. She and other readers relate the story of black life in America through her and other readers' poems.