Illusions (1982)

Directed by

Julie Dash

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

34 min

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A light-skinned African American woman pretends to be white while working in a Hollywood studio in the 1940s. The film shows her daily struggle and the deliberate exclusion of Black people from the movie industry at that time.

thoughtfulquietintrospectiveperiod-tingedsubtlefocusedsobering

What happens

Illusions is a 1982 film written and directed by Julie Dash. The short film depicts the life of an African American woman passing as a white woman working in the film industry during the 1940s. It calls attention to the lack of African Americans in the film industry during that era. In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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