Marco Williams in Person Two African American artists, Marco Williams and Camille Billops, have used the medium of film as a means of tracing a family member and, in the process, exploring the family with humor and insight. Williams made In Search of Our Fathers (USA, 1992, 70 mins, Color) seeking to learn about the father he never met and to understand the dynamic of single mothers in the African American community. What he offers is a portrait of ordinarily extraordinary women who, generation after generation, raised their children without fathers. Among many intriguing personalities to emerge is Marcos's mother, a bohemian in Paris who tries to dodge her son's intense focus on the man she herself barely knew. Camille Billops had given up her four-year-old daughter Christa for adoption; in 1980, at age twenty-two, Christa located her mother. Finding Christa (Camille Billops, James Hatch, USA, 1991, 55 mins) artfully traces mother and daughter's attempts to find each other amidst anger, ambivalence, and contradictory expectations. Christa's adopted mother in turn speaks of bonds created beyond biological ties. Interestingly, Billops uses the film to dodge Christa as much as Williams uses the medium to catch his parents; both films resonate with elusiveness, with no apologies made.