Zeinabu irene Davis Movies

In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Through their...

Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.

As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the...

The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.

Luz, a Filipina interpreter, takes a call from Dr. Femi Balogun to discuss the end-of-life options for Remedios, an elderly Filipina woman in the...

Part of a multi-platform project highlighted by an hour long documentary about black filmmakers who worked and studied at UCLA between 1965 and the...

A short film directed by Zeinabu irene Davis.

This innovative drama, set in Ohio, traces an African American couple's search for intimacy and friendship. The spirited, African-identified Yasmine...

A portrait of pioneering Black woman trumpet player, Clora Bryant.

Oblique, episodic meditations on the semiotics and ethics of ethnic female identity are accompanied by a blandly cynical narrator explaining how to...

In this video work, Zeinabu irene Davis and collaborator Quinta Seward perform a comic rap (old-school style) about the false promises in ads for...

Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.

The second short by Zeinabu irene Davis

First film by Zeinabu irene Davis