This retrospective at BAM spotlights the newly digitized and rarely seen documentary works of the late couple Camille Billops and James Hatch, who married in 1987. Among the six films featured is Suzanne, Suzanne (1982), a 25-minute portrait that bell hooks called “one of the most powerful documentaries of domestic life.” The duo’s films examine the legacy of slavery in the United States in the most personal of ways—by telling the deeply intimate and often painful stories of Billops’s family. From her heroin-addicted niece Suzanne, to Billops’s own reunion with a daughter she put up for adoption, the short films are fearless in their vulnerability and unrelenting in their interrogation of the Black American experience. —Paulina Prosnitz