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
Being James Bond77%
Perfect Day69%
Joker: Put on a Happy Face80%
A Woman60%
Shanghaied59%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Competition61%
Beau Hunks68%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Our Wife70%
The Tramp65%
The Finishing Touch69%
My Wife's Relations62%
X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time63%
Ferdinand the Bull67%
Ghost Recon: Alpha71%
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
A Movie65%
The Truce Hurts74%
Room 23761%
