Directing
O.Funmilayo Makarah
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O.Funmilayo Makarah is a writer and director of films and videos that explore cultural identity, as well as an educator. She came to Los Angeles in 1974 and entered the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. After spending a decade in Europe, she returned to the MFA program in the late-1980s. She later founded In VISIBLE COLORS, a network of film and video makers. In 1988, Makarah wrote and directed the short video DEFINE, a piece which examines ethnic female identity. She later made The Joke Series (1994), which was shown at the School of Art Institute in Chicago, and Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin (1989), a short that affirms Larkin’s identity as an arti…
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NRA 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
Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin
1989
A record of the May 25th protest of UCLA students concerning the University's policies towards people of color, and programs to serve their needs.
Diversity
1989
. . . Just Names . . . Just Names
. . . Just Names . . . Just Names
1988
NRO.Funmilayo Makarah crosses the country interviewing people about their reactions to the "not guilty" verdict in the 1992 Rodney King beating case and the resulting unrest in Los Angeles.
Fired-Up or How I Turned My Rage Into Art
1992
NROblique, episodic meditations on the semiotics and ethics of ethnic female identity are accompanied by a blandly cynical narrator explaining how to “win an invitation to the dominant culture.” —Kevin McMahon
Define
1988
film it is yes it is
Survival: The Black African Theatre Project '77
1977
Behind the camera
NRA 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
Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin
1989
A record of the May 25th protest of UCLA students concerning the University's policies towards people of color, and programs to serve their needs.
Diversity
1989
. . . Just Names . . . Just Names
. . . Just Names . . . Just Names
1988
NRO.Funmilayo Makarah crosses the country interviewing people about their reactions to the "not guilty" verdict in the 1992 Rodney King beating case and the resulting unrest in Los Angeles.
Fired-Up or How I Turned My Rage Into Art
1992
NROblique, episodic meditations on the semiotics and ethics of ethnic female identity are accompanied by a blandly cynical narrator explaining how to “win an invitation to the dominant culture.” —Kevin McMahon
Define
1988
film it is yes it is
Survival: The Black African Theatre Project '77
1977
5.0A captivating montage of notable Los Angeles sites, laced with free-floating names of places and people and accompanied by street noises, becomes a delightful and personal canon of spiritually sustaining quantities. —Shannon Kelley
L.A. in My Mind
2006
5.0A captivating montage of notable Los Angeles sites, laced with free-floating names of places and people and accompanied by street noises, becomes a delightful and personal canon of spiritually sustaining quantities. —Shannon Kelley
L.A. in My Mind
2006
5.0A captivating montage of notable Los Angeles sites, laced with free-floating names of places and people and accompanied by street noises, becomes a delightful and personal canon of spiritually sustaining quantities. —Shannon Kelley
L.A. in My Mind
2006
Ritual for Third World Women Artists
Ritual for Third World Women Artists
1978