The ninth edition of the annual festival of black independent film will be held Friday, August 3, through Sunday, August 12 at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson. Tickets are $5, $3 for Blacklight, Film Center, and Jazz Institute members. For more information call 509-2981 or 443- 3737.
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DEF BY TEMPTATION Former child actor James Bond III wrote, directed, produced, and stars in this comedy-horror feature about a divinity student fighting to overcome sexual temptation who visits an actor friend in New York (Kadeem Hardison) and encounters further temptation. With Bill Nunn and Cynthia Bond, and cameos by Melba Moore and Freddie Jackson. James Bond will be present at the screening. (8:30)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
INDEPENDENT SHORTS #1 Maureen Blackwood’s Perfect Image (1988) from Great Britain; Anita Addison’s Savannah (1990) from the U.S.; and Kenneth Kaplan’s The Burden (1989) from South Africa. (3:30)
INDEPENDENT SHORTS #2 Sabine Jell-Bahlsen’s hour-long, Nigerian documentary Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits in Nigeria; Erik Hamilton Knight’s Baobab, a personal short from the U.S. about the multicultural heritage of a young man with links to Norway and Barbados, shot in Kenya and New York; and David Johnson’s 40-minute video The Session, which focuses on a fictional character who represents the new black middle-class (Eric Payne) who is captured and “deprogrammed” by a group called DROP (Deprogramming and Restoration of Pride), costarring Vondie Curtis Hall and Leonard Thomas. All three works were made in 1989. (6:00)
