Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Ganja and Hess
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| Other authors / contributors: | Gunn, Bill, 1934-1989, director, actor.
Schultz, Chiz, film producer.
Jones, Duane, actor.
Clark, Marlene, 1949- actor.
Waymon, Sam, actor, composer (expression)
Jackson, Leonard, actor.
King, Mabel, 1932-1999, actor.
Hinton, James E., 1936-2006, director of photography.
Kanefsky, Victor, editor of moving image work.
Kelly-Jordan Enterprises, Inc., production company.
Kanopy (Firm), publisher.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file MPEG-4 Flash
streaming video file
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| Notes: | Title from title frames.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
This version produced by Kino Lorber Edu.
Photographed by James E. Hinton ; editing, Victor Kanefsky ; music by Sam Waymon ; produced for video by Bret Wood ; special features produced by David Kalat.
Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Sam Waymon, Leonard Jackson, Mabel King.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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| Summary: | Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and the horror cinema, Bill Gunn's revolutionary independent film Ganja and Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones (Night of the living dead) stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn), endowing him with the blessing of immortality, and the curse of an unquenchable thirst for blood. When the assistant's beautiful and outspoken wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) comes searching for her vanished husband, she and Hess form an unexpected partnership. Together, they explore just how much power there is in the blood Later recut and released in an inferior version, this Kino Classics edition represents the original release, restored by The Museum of Modern Art with support from The Film Foundation, and mastered in HD from a 35mm negative.
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| Publisher's no.: | 1114059 Kanopy
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