MPG: Motion Picture Genocide
MPG: Motion Picture Genocide is a 1997 film by Robert Banks.[1][2]
Summary
[edit]It is an examination of 100 years of African Americans being murdered in films for cheap thrills and escapism.[3][4][5]
See also
[edit]- Last House on the Left - the 1972 horror film with the tagline featured on Robert Banks's film "to avoid fainting, keep repeating: it's only a movie"
- Media violence
External links
[edit]- The Lantern
- MPG: Motion Picture Genocide at IMDb
- The entire film officially posted by filmmaker Michael Wendt on Vimeo
References
[edit]- ^ The Films Of Robert Banks & Bruce Checefsky|Experimental Cinema
- ^ Black X: African Diaspora Experimental Film Series — maysles documentary center
- ^ A celebration of Black filmmakers at Block Cinema - Chicago Reader
- ^ Frame by Frame III - Google Books (pg.506)
- ^ Making Images Move - Google Books (pg.145)