Alva Rogers

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The Flooded Playground
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The Flooded Playground is a digitally composed animated fairy tale about a young child who resides in a house which has a darkly disturbing force that oppresses him in body, mind and spirit. The wallpaper torments him, a malevolent wind deters him from eating, and thorned vines erupt in his bedroom. A sudden cataclysm throws him into a craggy wonderland where he wanders into deep forests and through his inner inferno in a quest to mend his damaged spirit. Thematically, this film is concerned with the amorphous fears, covert brutality, yearnings, and magical thinking of childhood, the resiliency of the human spirit, and the meaning of home. Lush visual images depict the emotional complexities of childhood - the combination of helplessness and invincibility, sweetness and brutality, and the edge where lines between the real and the imaginary are blurred.
Animation
Daughters of the Dust
6.5

Daughters of the Dust

Jan 24, 1991
L'histoire d'une famille noire avant sa migration dans le nord des Etats-Unis, racontee par une petite fille qui n'est pas encore nee, met en scene un trio de femmes au caractere fort.
Drama
Fresh Kill
5.545

Fresh Kill

Jan 12, 1996
Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food.
Science Fiction
Window on Your Present
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Window on Your Present is Cinqué Lee's first feature film, which he wrote and directed in the late 1980s. The film takes place in a world where color and love do not exist. The people who live in this dreary world have nothing to live for and often end up taking their own lives. However, two unlikely lovers discovery that there is something else that is special that exists outside of their horrid world.
Science Fiction
School Daze
5.8

School Daze

Feb 12, 1988
Inspiré des années d'études du cinéaste, School daze décrit l'affrontement de deux groupes d'étudiants afro-américains aux idées opposées, les "Wannabes" et les "Jigaboos"
Comedy