Down Hear (1972)

A singular cinematic figure San Franciscos Mike Henderson became one of the first independent AfricanAmerican artists to make inroads into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s Hendersons work throughout the 1970s and 1980s from which this program of 16mm films is culled thrums with a sociopolitical humorous sensibility that lends his smallscale often musically kissed portraits which he later dubbed blues cinema a personal artisanal quality Film Society of Lincoln Center Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016