Made as Ben Caldwell's first project at UCLA, Medea is a collage film that explores the information that permeates into a child before it is born.
Wildly inventive Ben Caldwell's early films show his incredible formal invention and rich multi-disciplinary practice. Medea is an epic film that combines symbolic images of clouds and a pregnant woman with dense animation of images and photographs spanning the history of African people in just a few minutes. Accompanied by Amiri Baraka's polemical poem Part of the Doctrine the film explores connections between race, culture and spirituality.
Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer and Editor : Ben Caldwell
USA, 1973, Digital video, transferred from 16mm, colour, 7 min
Available for research at UCLA
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