Personal Problems + Introduction
<div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bill Gunn’s</b> Personal Problems is the definitive cinematic blueprint for the Black ordinary.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A legendary meta-soap opera that has maintained a devoted underground following since 198, it captures the improvisational heat of Harlem life on gritty U-matic video to explore what <b>Ishmael Reed </b>calls the "triteness of everyday life."</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gunn and Reed bypassed 1980s gatekeepers to create a work that finds the revolutionary within the familiar through a real Black middle class navigating the raw complexities of sickness, love, and work.</div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Screening as part of our </span><a href="https://www.glasgowfilm.org/black-history-month-at-gft" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Black History Month</a><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">programme. </span><br></div>DramaPT2H45M12A2026-10-03USenVertamae Grosvenor
Walter Cotton
Bill Gunn
Bill Gunn
Ishmael Reed
Walter Cotton
Personal Problems + Introduction"Personal Problems + Introduction"Showtimes
October 3, 3:00 pm
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