Filmed by Ethiopian born filmmaker Haile Gerima in 1976 while attending UCLA, Bush Mama is a deeply moving and disturbing film. It details the life of Dorothy who is a poor black woman. Her husband is put in jail for observable reason and she is pregnant with a second child. The government threatens to take away her welfare if she does not get an abortion. From prison her husband sends her letters where he rants about the oppressive system that all black people live by. At first she does not wish to read any of that, however, she slowly becomes radicalized and becomes aware of her black consciousness as the film progresses.
The film can be described as absorbing, frustrating, haunting, gritty and at times surreal. It is shot in grainy black and white with a meandering and non-linear chronology. It is meditative, but is also a call to action.
It questions previous black films such as Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) in its depictions of black culture and especially black womanhood. In fact, Bush Mama could possibly be the first black film that truly examined black womanhood in a central and respectable manner.
Haile Gerima was part of the LA School of black filmmakers from the 1970s along with Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep), Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust), and Ben Caldwell (I and I). Their form was anti-Hollywood and was concerned with social and political activism as well as black identity.
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