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Daughters of the Dust addresses its weighty themes with lovely visuals and a light, poetic touch, offering an original, absorbing look at a largely unexplored corner of American culture. Read...
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Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" is a tone poem of old memories, a family album in which all of the pictures are taken on the same day. It tells the story of a family of African-Americans who have lived for many years on a Southern offshore island, and of how they come together one day in 1902 to celebrate their ancestors before some of ...
May 31, 2017 · Daughters of the Dust: Julie Dash's lush drama remains a vital portrait of black life. Read more. It is set in 1901 on the South Carolina island of St Helena, where descendants of slaves...
Aug 22, 2016 · DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST is a post-slavery narrative about cultural memory, notions of home and belonging, and conflicts of Black female identity. -25th Anniversary 2K Restoration-In theaters...
Nov 18, 2016 · The year’s best and most original movie was made in 1991 and is returning today, in a new restoration, to Film Forum, where it premièred a quarter century ago: “Daughters of the Dust,”...
Daughters of the Dust. Directed by Julie Dash • 1991 • United States. Starring Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara O. Jones. Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release.
Maya S. Cade. Julie Dash, Arthur Jafa. Adisa Anderson, Barbara O. Jones, Cheryl Lynn Bruce. 112 minutes. Julie Dash’s visionary visual marriage between Afrocentric aesthetics and the rich emotional depth of Black womanhood is a cinematic triumph.
