Zeinabu irene Davis Movies

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

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...

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

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...

A short film directed by Zeinabu irene Davis.

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

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

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 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