DOCUMENTARIES from the Hatch-Billops Collection

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Camille Billops, Hatch-Billops Collection
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Suzanne Suzanne
(1983) 30 minutes, is the story of a young woman's struggle to confront the legacy of a loving but abusive father who drove her into a headlong flight of drug abuse. Her successful struggle proves inspiration and insight for all who seek to ally the long term damage of child abuse.

Older Women and Love
(1985) 30 minutes, is a film about older women and their relationships with younger men

Finding Christa
(1992) 59 minutes, is the story of a mother who gave her child up for adoption. Twenty years later, the child finds her mother again, and the two of them must resolve the past and their future together.

The KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks
(77 minute film. 58 minute video) is an attempt to confront everyone's racism, including that of the filmmakers, Camile Billops (Black) and James Hatch (White). Talking head interviews are intercut with surreal scenes fantasy in order to demonstrate the often hidden agendas of racism.

Take Your Bags
Length: 10 minutes
Camille Billops tells a five-year old black child how Africans had their cultural baggage "switched" during the Middle Passage.

A String of Pearls
(2002) 56 minutes turns the camera to four generations of men and considers why their fathers died so young.