The Shape of Things
1981•8m•Released
A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s. Henderson’s work throughout the 1970s and 1980s, from which this program of 16mm films is culled, thrums with a sociopolitical, humorous sensibility that lends his small-scale, 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 2014.
Director
Mike Henderson
Recommended
6.8
Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
2022
6
Very Nice, Very Nice
1961
8
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
2020
6.9
Mike's New Car
2002
7.8
Being James Bond
2021
6.7
Barbecue Brawl
1956
6.5
Canine Caddy
1941
5.9
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer?
2019
7.4
The Bodyguard
1944
6.8
Runaway Brain
1995
6
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Money?
2019
6.1
Hammy's Boomerang Adventure
2006
6.3
Donald's Better Self
1938
7.1
Our Wife
1931
7.9
Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
2007
6.5
Donald's Nephews
1938
6.9
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
2016
6.1
A Woman
1915
6.2
Old MacDonald Duck
1941
6.7
Casanova Cat
1951
Similar Movies
Yotsuya Kaidan
1911
Yotsuya Kaidan
1913
9
Joanne & Khadi
2016
Goose Chase
2022
6.1
Gopher Broke
2004
A Flying Ember on the Ground
2017
La diosa de la banana
1976
The Cure to Loneliness
2022
A Drop of Sunshine
2011
6.5
The Melody of Evil
2016
6.7
The Masque of the Red Death
1964
Smiles
1964
5.8
When the Howls Find Us
2017
4.5
Wolves
2016
7
All the King's Men
1949
5
Invasion of the Space Lobsters
2005
5
Divisional Articulations
2017
Still Life
2026
The Wayfarer
2025
5.5
Between Showers
1914