A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s. Henderson’s work throughout the 1970s and 1980s, from which this program of 16mm films is culled, thrums with a sociopolitical, humorous sensibility that lends his small-scale, often musically kissed portraits (which he later dubbed “blues cinema”) a personal, artisanal quality. - Film Society of Lincoln Center. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Mike Henderson
Director
Joker: Put on a Happy Face80%
Solid Serenade74%
His Mouse Friday64%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Pluto's Sweater68%
The Truce Hurts74%
Perfect Day69%
The Yankee Doodle Mouse71%
Our Wife70%
Beau Hunks68%
Sea Scouts63%
Shanghaied59%
A Woman60%
Being James Bond77%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
The Black Hole70%
Ferdinand the Bull67%
Good Scouts62%
Chips Ahoy66%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
