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One of the many films that Camille Billops and James Hatch made centering on Billops’s family, SUZANNE, SUZANNE presents a devastating portrait of the artist’s niece, haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child and the passivity of the family members who allowed it to continue.

“…examines the potential for violence and abuse that underlies the carefully tended facade of middle-class respectability…”
– Valerie Smith, Professor of English, UCLA

“For Camille Billops, autobiography is a means to a new black documentary style.”
– B. Ruby Rich, Sight and Sound Magazine

“This insightful 30-minute documentary profiles a young black woman, Suzanne Browning, as she confronts a legacy of physical abuse and its role in her descent into substance abuse. The film was conceived by Browning’s aunt, Camille Billops, as a sort of cinematic drug intervention. Family remembrances revealed the truth behind the addiction: Suzanne and her mother were victims of domestic abuse at the hands of the family patriarch. Armed with the key to her own self-destructive behavior, Suzanne struggles to understand her father’s brutality and her mother’s passive complicity. After years of silence, Suzanne and her mother are finally able to share their painful experiences with each other in an intensely moving moment of truth. Directed by Billops and James Hatch, this film essay captures the essence of a black middle-class family in crisis.”
– National Film Registry

Suzanne.Suzanne.1982.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	25 min 54 s
Size: 	1.01 GiB
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Resolution: 	1440x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/DC7DE5AE88896C1/Suzanne.Suzanne.1982.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English (CC)

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This startlingly personal documentary presents a moving yet unsentimental view of motherhood and adoption. It explores the feelings surrounding the reunion of a young woman with her birth mother twenty years after being given up for adoption. The reunion is between filmmaker Camille Billops and her own daughter, Christa. Facing the re-encounter with mixed emotions, Billops interrogates her family and friends as well as her own motivations. The result is an original and daring work that challenges social biases about adoption and offers new insight into mother-daughter relationships.

Winner of the 1992 Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at Sundance.

705MB | 55m 13s | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/05470BE69696681/Finding_Christa_(Camille_Billops_&_James_Hatch,_1991).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English Cc

The post Camille Billops & James Hatch – Finding Christa (1991) first appeared on Cinema of the World.