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The film is set in Hollywood in 1942, a time when the role of the film industry was to create an illusion for the audience to believe in. This illusion was based on the creation of American history in films; what is seen on screen is usually what they want you to believe and not actually the truth.
With Lonette McKee, Rosanne Katon, Ned Bellamy, Jack Rader. An African American woman rises to prominence in a fictional movie studio in the 1940s by passing as a white woman, affording others some dignity in the business that frequently portrayed movies as an illusion of a purely "white world."
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- Drama, Short
- Julie Dash
- 1982-08-30
Jun 22, 2017 · Preview Clip: Illusions (1982, starring Lonette McKee and Rosanne Katon) https://www.daaracarchive.org/2017/06... The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a ...
- 7 min
- 15.5K
- Black Film History
Illusions is a self-reflexive film about a fictional Hollywood studio in the 1940s, where two African American women face racism and invisibility. The film explores the power and limitations of cinema as a historian and a mirror of society.
Feb 2, 2009 · Illusions is a 1982 short film by Julie Dash that challenges the erasure of African-American women from Hollywood history and cinema. The film features a scene where a black woman dubs the voice of a white star, exposing the illusions and injustices of the studio system.
- Wes Felton
Oct 14, 2019 · Illusions. By Richard Brody. March 19, 2021. In this thirty-four-minute featurette, from 1982, Julie Dash ingeniously revives classic-Hollywood themes and styles in order to...
An African American woman becomes a studio executive in the 1940s by passing as a white woman. [Julie] Dash’s most significant work before Daughters was Illusions, a thirty-four-minute narrative...
- Drama
