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Take Your Bags
Camille Billops
1998
Color
11 minutes
US
English
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Take Your Bags

"My take on slavery: When the Africans boarded the ships bound for America, they carried in their bags all their memories of home. When they arrived in the New World, their bags had been switched, and in them they found nigger, beast, slave,...Many generations later, the children of these Africans toured the Museum of Modern Art to see the sculptures and art of Picasso, Braque and Matisse. Lo! There were the beautiful icons of their ancestors, the images that had been stolen from their bags."--Camille Billops
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Awards

• Honoral Mention, National Black Programming Consortium
Screenings
• Kenkeleba Gallery, 2010
• BAMCinematek, 2017
• International Film Festival Rotterdam, 1999
• Toronto International Film Festival, 1999
• Sundance Film Festival, 1999
• Atlanta Black Arts, High Museum of Art, 1998
• African Film Festival Now, Toronto, 1999
• Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, 1999
• L.A. Independent Film Festival, 1999
• Women in the Directors Chair, 1999
• San Francisco Cinematheque, 1999
• Taos Talking Picture Festival, 1999
• Washington DC International Film Festival, 1999
• Writers Guild of America, 1999
• BBC International Short Films Festival, London, 1999
• One Way or Another, BAMcinematek, 2016
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