Special Preview of new 4K Restoration: Compensation

+ pre-recorded intro by director Zeinabu irene Davis

A fresh restoration of an underseen masterpiece by Zeinabu irene Davis.

  • Director

    Zeinabu irene Davis

  • With

    Michelle A. Banks, John Earl Jelks

  • USA 1999. 92min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • English subtitles

A member of the L.A. Rebellion movement of artists and filmmakers, Zeinabu irene Davis explores parallel love stories of a deaf woman and a hearing man. Unfolding, respectively, in early 20th-century and contemporary Chicago, Davis’s drama expertly traverses a century of Black American history, employing archival photos to tell a contemplative story that is beautifully enhanced by silence, music and captions.

Additional Descriptive Subtitles of non-dialogue audio available at all screenings.

Digitally restored in 4K by The Criterion Collection, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and Wimmin With a Mission Productions in conjunction with The Sundance Institute.