Quote:
Cheryl is young, Black, and lesbian, working in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara and consumed by a film project: to make a video about her search for a Black actress from Philly who appeared in films in the 30s and was known as the Watermelon Woman. Following various leads, Cheryl discovers the Watermelon Woman’s stage name and real name and surmises that the actress had a long affair with Martha Page, a White woman and one of Hollywood’s few female directors. As she’s discovering these things, Cheryl becomes involved with Diana, who’s also White. The affair strains Cheryl’s friendship with Tamara. More discoveries bring Cheryl (and us, her audience) to new realizations.

Cheryl Dunye - The Watermelon Woman (1996).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
Size: 	2.48 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 879 kb/s
BPP: 	0.366
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 288 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/E420D2CFFDED995/Cheryl_Dunye_-_The_Watermelon_Woman_(1996).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Cheryl Dunye – The Watermelon Woman (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Enjoyably strange, The Owls is an ambitious mixture of lesbian noir, radically experimental filmmaking and community project; a piece of collective art about age, politics, race, desire and gender anxiety. At a house party hosted by a group of Older Wiser Lesbians a young queer is murdered and their disappearance covered up, but just as the group of women let down their guard, a mysterious stranger comes asking questions.

The filmmakers use an interesting cocktail of unusual cinematographical features for various reasons; a distinct documentary tone, direct mode of address with the audience, non-linear narrative, and vox-pop interviews with both the characters AND the actors who play them throughout the film.

The main characters are dysfunctional, fairly bitter 40-somethings, with no solid, steady relationships portrayed. For me, the extremely believable acting of these characters may cause something of a dilemma to any younger lesbians, to whom this presentation of older lesbians may be seen as particularly negative.

868MB | 1h 02m | 704×400 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/3C7106C7A56CC8F/owls.avi

Language:English
Subtitles:None

The post Cheryl Dunye – The Owls (2010) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Cheryl is young, Black, and lesbian, working in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara and consumed by a film project: to make a video about her search for a Black actress from Philly who appeared in films in the 30s and was known as the Watermelon Woman. Following various leads, Cheryl discovers the Watermelon Woman’s stage name and real name and surmises that the actress had a long affair with Martha Page, a White woman and one of Hollywood’s few female directors. As she’s discovering these things, Cheryl becomes involved with Diana, who’s also White. The affair strains Cheryl’s friendship with Tamara. More discoveries bring Cheryl (and us, her audience) to new realizations.

http://nitroflare.com/view/8B03E48D7346145/Cheryl_Dunye_-_%281996%29_The_Watermelon_Woman.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Spanish

The post Cheryl Dunye – The Watermelon Woman (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.