OLDER WOMEN AND LOVE and A STRING OF PEARLS

Saturday, July 29, 6:00 p.m. | Through interviews and dramatizations, the taboo-shattering OLDER WOMEN AND LOVE (1987, USA, 27 min. In English / Format: Digital) offers a touching and often humorous look at social attitudes toward relationships between older women and younger men. The filmmakers are involved on both sides of the camera as they direct their multiracial cast in an insightful profile of older-younger relationships, while their subjects are candid and comfortable discussing the joys and problems of loving someone of a different generation.

In A STRING OF PEARLS (2002, USA, 57 min. In English / Format: Digital), the final installment of her acclaimed Family Trilogy (SUZANNE, SUZANNE and FINDING CHRISTA), Billops turns the camera on four generations of men in her family and considers the ways in which urban violence, unemployment, and the early deaths of their own fathers have shaped their lives. 

Followed by a discussion with Naeema Torres, Interim Executive Director, Mezcla Media Collective.

A String of Pearls: The Films of Camille Billops & James Hatch: The Film Center is proud to be the home of Chicago’s first-ever complete retrospective of the films of Camille Billops and James Hatch. Black cultural life and storytelling are centered on screen in these six autobiographical works that innovated the documentary form and artfully weave together personal histories and social issues. View full series.