A night watchman at a shuttered, dimly lit factory runs into a bum who used to be a preacher that is trying to sleep away from the thunderstorm, but...
Nightwatch
Depicts one woman's struggle with the responsibility of juggling two jobs at one time as both a garage mechanic and God's chosen messiah. She faces a...
Repairs
It is the story of a pacifist of the 60s, who, after living as a deserter for twelve years, decides to hand himself over to the authorities and face...
Leon's Case
Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited...
Medea
An educational music film promoting the values of UCLA.
All You Can Dream
Ray Manzarek's 2nd U.C.L.A. student film from the spring semester of 1965. A sync-sound project, it is a tale of lovers lost and lovers found, with...
Induction
When Cassandra witnesses a drunken encounter between her friend and her roommate, she is compelled to investigate if it was consensual.
Cassandra
An Alien is sent to earth to investigate the "incubators." She discovers that she is replacing a rogue agent. She questions her mission.
The Changing Same
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his...
The Times of Harvey Milk
Presents the story of a relationship between the haunted son of Holocaust survivors and a gentile woman
Shikse
Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things...
Daydream Therapy
Director Melvonna Ballenger’s Rain (Nyesha) shows how awareness can lead to a more fulfilling life. In the film, a female typist goes from...
Rain (Nyesha)
An improvised late '60s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Charles Burnett, done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A...
Several Friends
Emmy-winning documentary by a UCLA student concerning undocumented Mexican workers' struggle on a flower farm in Northern California. The documentary...
Año Nuevo
Francesco takes an unsparing look at the most pressing challenges of the 21st-century, asking deep questions about the human condition. The film is...
Francesco
When an aged man feels the need to confess to the new catholic priest, his gay lover of many years is hurt and upset.
The Confession
A woman from Nigeria seeks work in the United States while her daughter struggles with premonitions and homesickness.
African Woman – USA
Filmmaker Don Amis was one of the very few Black student filmmakers at UCLA (including Carroll Parrott Blue and Denise Bean) working in a documentary...
Festival of Mask
A woman remembers an unwanted teenage pregnancy.
Hidden Memories
A man is trying to decide if he should go to Vietnam with the US army.
Fragrance