Drawing by hand directly on 16mm film, Banks challenges commercial appropriations of the image of Malcolm X.

X: The Baby Cinema

An examination of 100 years of African Americans being murdered in movies.

Motion Picture Genocide

Tale of life, love and the pursuit of happiness... in Cleveland. Nine vignettes about love: an old war hero defends the honor and memory of a long-lost love; a man's past comes to light in the midst of a perfect date; a recently separated paramedic gets more than he bargains for when he is thrust in the middle of a domestic dispute; a desperate man employs his friends in an elaborate scheme to meet the girl of his dreams, a recovering sex addict returns home to start a new life. There are thousands of stories of love, lust, loss and despair all over Cleveland-these are just a few of them.