This screening includes Personal Problems
- Date and time:
- Mon, Oct 1, 2018, From 7–9:45 pm
- Runtime:
- 2 hr 45 min
- Cost:
- $4 IUB students, $7 non-students
Series: International Art House Series
About Personal Problems
- Rating:
- Year Released:
- 2017
- Format:
- 2K DCP
- Genres:
- Drama
- Metadata:
Originally intended to air on public television in 1980, Personal Problems went unseen for many years. The ensemble drama is the result of a collaboration between pioneering Black artists, writer Ishmael Reed and director Bill Gunn. Operating in defiance of the racially exclusive Hollywood studio system, Reed and Gunn banded together with a group of renegade artists to film a “meta soap opera” about the struggles of a working class African American couple in New York City. The original tapes have been carefully restored by Kino Lorber, and the film is now available in its full-length version for the first time in decades. Gunn also wrote and directed the underground classic Ganja & Hess and crafted the screenplay for Hal Ashby’s The Landlord.