Killer of Sheep Nov 10 7pm at BAMPFA

[Matt Wade]

I'm thinking of going to this; let me know if anyone wants to join me -Matt

http://bampfa.org/event/killer-sheep-11

Killer of Sheep

Charles Burnett United States, 1977

• Introduction

  Stephen Best

  Associate professor of English at UC Berkeley and author of The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession.

featuring

Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett,

Killer of Sheep evokes the everyday trials, fragile pleasures, and tenacious humor of blue-collar African Americans in 1970s Watts. Charles Burnett made the film on a minuscule budget with a mostly nonprofessional cast, combining keen on-the-street observation with a carefully crafted script. The episodic plot centers on the character of Stan, a slaughterhouse worker mired in exhaustion, disconnected from his wife, his children, and himself. Stan and his neighbors struggle to get by, let alone get ahead; as befits an LA movie, vehicular metaphors of breakdown abound. Only the kids, leaping from roof to roof, seem to achieve a mobility that eludes their elders.

Juliet Clark

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Matt Wade
PhD Candidate
Department of City and Regional Planning
University of California, Berkeley