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This article focuses on Charles Burnett’s short films Several Friends (1969) and The Horse (1973). His loose narrative structure magnifies the way his characters seek to grasp self-identity and self-determination in the midst of the second Great Migration during the Second World War and the Watts Unrest of 1965. Ultimately, this project identifies how Burnett’s filmmaking style and storytelling approach focuses on the social positioning of Black working-class men in the space of South Los Angeles and the memory of the rural South.