MPG: Motion Picture Genocide
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MPG: Motion Picture Genocide is a 1997 film by Robert Banks.[https://expcinema.org/site/en/films-robert-banks-bruce-checefsky The Films Of Robert Banks & Bruce Checefsky|Experimental Cinema][https://www.maysles.org/archive2011/2017/8/14/black-x-african-diaspora-experimental-film-series Black X: African Diaspora Experimental Film Series — maysles documentary center]
Summary
It is an examination of 100 years of African Americans being murdered in films for cheap thrills and escapism.[https://chicagoreader.com/film/a-celebration-of-black-filmmakers-at-block-cinema/ A celebration of Black filmmakers at Block Cinema - Chicago Reader][https://books.google.com/books?id=z5qmplifVDIC Frame by Frame III - Google Books (pg.506)][https://books.google.com/books?id=DpatDwAAQBAJ Making Images Move - Google Books (pg.145)]
See also
- Last House on the Left - the 1972 horror film with the tagline featured on Robert Banks's film "to avoid fainting, keep repeating: it's only a movie"
- Media violence
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050311125955/http://www.thelantern.com/news/2001/11/29/Arts/Indie.Filmaker.Offers.Insight.At.Wexner-153056.shtml The Lantern]
- {{IMDb title|id=0314406|title=MPG: Motion Picture Genocide}}
- [https://vimeo.com/522145104 The entire film officially posted by filmmaker Michael Wendt on Vimeo]