• Cheryl Dunye: An Untitled Portrait, 1993

  • Cheryl Dunye: The Potluck and the Passion, 1993

  • Cheryl Dunye: Vanilla Sex, 1992

  • Cheryl Dunye: Greetings from Africa, 1996

  • Cheryl Dunye: She Don’t Fade, 1991

  • Cheryl Dunye: Janine, 1990

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.



Cheryl Dunye’s Short Work



  • In Person
    Cheryl Dunye
  • Allegra Madsen

    Allegra Madsen is the Executive Director at Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the largest and longest-running queer film festival in the world.

I chose this program of my short work from 1990–2014 because it charts the evolution of my voice—DIY, Black, queer, and always a little bit disruptive. These shorts are where I found my vision and learned to bend form to tell truths that didn’t yet have a genre.

Cheryl Dunye
Films in this Screening

Janine

Cheryl Dunye, United States, 1990

FEATURING
Cheryl Dunye

A candid chronicle of Cheryl Dunye’s high school friendship with an upper-middle-class white girl.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Cheryl Dunye
Cinematographer
  • Gail Lloyd
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 9 mins
source
  • Janus Films

She Don’t Fade

Cheryl Dunye, United States, 1991

FEATURING
Cheryl Dunye
Paula Cronan
Zoie Strauss
Wanda Freeman

Shae Clarke (Dunye) recounts and demonstrates her “new approach to women.” 

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Cheryl Dunye
Cinematographer
  • Paula Cronan
Print Info
  • B&W
  • Digital
  • 24 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Vanilla Sex

Cheryl Dunye, United States, 1992

Looking at Polaroids and home movies, off-screen voices ponder the shifting definition of “vanilla sex.” 

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Cheryl Dunye
Print Info
  • B&W
  • Digital
  • 4 mins
source
  • Janus Films

An Untitled Portrait

Cheryl Dunye, United States, 1993

A collage of assorted film and video clips and voiceover creates a family portrait revolving around Dunye’s older brother.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Cheryl Dunye
Cinematographer
  • Cheryl Dunye
  • Nikki Harmon
Print Info
  • B&W/Color
  • Digital
  • 3 mins
source
  • Janus Films

The Potluck and the Passion

Cheryl Dunye, United States, 1993

FEATURING
Pat Branch
Jen Benoit
Shelita Birchett
Nora Breen

A Black lesbian couple hosts a potluck to celebrate their anniversary. It does not go as planned.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Cheryl Dunye
  • Pat Branch
Cinematographer
  • Jim Caiola
  • Barbara Kigozi
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 22 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Greetings from Africa

Cheryl Dunye, United States, 1996

FEATURING
Cheryl Dunye
Nora Breen
Jocelyn Taylor
Jacqueline Woodson

Dunye plays herself in this elliptical chronicle of dating in the 1990s.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Cheryl Dunye
Cinematographer
  • Sarah Cawley
Print Info
  • B&W/Color
  • Digital
  • 10 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Black Is Blue

Cheryl Dunye, United States, 2014

FEATURING
Kingston Farady
Andre Le Blanc
Lisa Evans
Bianca Von Kreig

Black, a trans man working as a security guard, is confronted with his pre-transition self while on the job at an Oakland apartment complex.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Cheryl Dunye
Cinematographer
  • Kevin Paul Lawrence
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 21 mins
source
  • Jingletown Films

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