Before the 1990s, we wouldn't expect to see a film like The Watermelon Woman, a microbudget movie by a black queer filmmaker about black queer issues. But it's also a staple of 1990s independent cinema for its self-reflexivity: a film about filmmaking and film history. We tie together past episodes on Baby Face and A Page of Madness as we consider the canon of film that The Watermelon Woman challenges, and the way groups of people are buried by history. Join our Patreon for a discussion about local video storesWhere to watch The Watermelon WomanThe City Paper review of The Watermelon Woman that become political ammoWhere to watch Face/Off