Scribe
Video
Center
Scribe
Video
Center
was founded in 1982 as a place where emerging and experienced
media artists could gain access to the tools and knowledge of
video making and work together in a supportive environment.
Tuesday,
January 12, 2010
The
Vision of Julie Dash
Director
Julie Dash in person
Funny
Valentines
dir.
Julie Dash, US, 1999, 108 mins
A
woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage
and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship
with her cousin.
followed
by
Illusions
dir.
Julie Dash, US, 1983, 34 mins
It
is 1942, one year after Pearl Harbor; the setting is National
Studios, a Hollywood motion picture studio. Mignon Dupree, a
Black woman studio executive who appears to be white and Ester
Jeeter, an African American woman who is the singing voice for
a white Hollywood star are forced to come to grips with a society
that perpetuates false images as status quo.
Daughters
of the Dust
dir.
Julie Dash, US, 1992, 112 mins
Daughters
of the Dust
tells the story of three generations of Gullah women at the
turn of the 20th century and focuses on the family's migration
from the Sea Islands to the American mainland. Against the wishes
of the family matriarch, Nana, the younger Peazants are planning
to leave the island. Viola Peazant, who has turned her
back completely on the African folk-ways still practiced by
Nana, is elated at the family's decision to "cross over"
and has brought a photographer to capture the event for posterity.
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