Julie Dash: “Reimagining Black Cinema”

Moderation with Julie Dash, Film screening discussion, Tue, 8.04., 8:15 pm, DFF

Julie Dash is known for films about diasporic identities, racial justice and the lives of Black women. As part of the so-called “L.A. Rebellion”, she is a central figure in Black Independent Cinema, which created new forms of experimental and independent film. With DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST in 1991, she was the first African-American woman to have a nationwide US theatrical release. The evening program on April 8th will show three early films from her time as a film student at UCLA and in the context of the “L.A. Rebellion”. Afterwards, the director will talk to curator and artist Karina Griffith about the stages of her work in film and television.

FOUR WOMEN
USA 1975. Director, script, editor: Julie Dash. Cinematography: Robert Maxwell. Music: Nina Simone. Production design: Winfred Tennison, Cast: Linda Martina Young. 10 min., engl. OV.

DIARY OF AN AFRICAN NUN
USA 1977. Director, script, production: Julie Dash. Cinematography: Orin Mitchell. Script: Alice Walker. Cast: Barbara O, Barbara Young, Makimi Price, Ron Flagge, Renee Carraway. 13 min., engl. OV.

ILLUSIONS
USA 1982. Director, script: Julie Dash, Cinematography: Ahmed El Maanouni. Editor: Charles Burnett, Julie Dash. Music: Eugene Bohlmann. Production: Julie Dash. Cast: Lonette McKee, Roseann Katon. 34 min., engl. OV.

FOUR WOMEN: Nina Simone’s ballad of the same name, the dancer Linda Martina Young – four imaginations of black femininity. DIARY OF AN AFRICAN NUN is based on a short story by Alice Walker and revolves around the spiritual crisis of a nun. ILLUSIONS goes against the grain of Hollywood historiography in 1942: the passing of black production manager Mignon Duprée as white leads to her confronting racism.

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