OFX partner, Chat Pile frontman, and cinephile extraordinaire Raygun Busch presents to you Killer of Sheep in honor of our week of Black cinema. Created originally as a thesis project, Charles Burnett depicts the life of a slaughterhouse worker in a series of vignettes to capture life in 1970s Watts. Charles Burnett came out of a generation dubbed the “LA Rebellion,” a movement of Black filmmakers coming out of UCLA in the 1960s-1990s, a parallel to the New Hollywood. The film captures life in Watts post-1965 riots, an event incited by police brutality and decades of inequity, but before its cultural reputation becomes attached to the music of Dr. Dre and others and films such as Menace II Society and Training Day. Raygun only shows the good stuff, and this film is foundational, required viewing.

Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1h 20m
Rating: NR. Audience discretion advised.