DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS

Black Cat -   Ishikawa Toraji , 1935.

Japanese, 1875-1964

Eruption of Oldoinyo Lengai Volcano /

Richard Bosman (American, b. 1944), Volcano, 1989. Oil on two canvases, 244 x 198 cm /

Young Couple seen from the back kissing at night at Woodstock, 1969

Bethel, New York

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1990′s video store aesthetics in The Watermelon Woman (1996), written, directed, starring, and edited by Cheryl Dunye. 

“Writer-director Cheryl Dunye’s debut feature centers on video store clerk-cum-documentarian Cheryl and her obsessive quest to unearth the forgotten contributions of African American women throughout cinematic history. Intent on creating a perennial work that would surpass the magical, democratized moment of mid-‘90s prosumer video-making, Dunye imbues The Watermelon Woman, the first feature-length film directed by a Black lesbian, with a crystal clear mission: to tell those stories that have never been told.”