Black Fantasy
1972 film by Lionel Rogosin
Black Fantasy is the fifth feature-length film produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. It starred Jim Collier, who is credited also with "dialogue improvised by." Collier and Rogosin had previously worked together in Black Roots, produced two years earlier.
Largely improvised, it is Lionel Rogosin's most formally experimental film.
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