Tickets: $10 in advance / $15 at the door
Tickets available online:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5417245126
Over the Phone:
313-831-8700
Or in person at the N'Namdi Center:
Tues. - Sat. 12 - 6 p.m.
N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art
52 E. Forest Detroit MI 48201
Works slated to be screened include:
FOUR WOMEN, a film by Julie Dash
Set to Nina Simone’s stirring ballad of the same name, Julie Dash’s dance film features Linda Martina Young as strong “Aunt Sarah,” tragic mulatto “Saffronia,” sensuous “Sweet Thing” and militant “Peaches.” (1975, Color, 4 min.)
DIARY OF AN AFRICAN NUN, a film by Julie Dash
An African nun is consumed by fear and doubt about her decision to take the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience that come with being a nun. Her anguish intensifies night after night as she lies on a hard bed in her small room at the convent and listens to the rhythmic, beckoning drums of her village. Adapted from an Alice Walker short and starring BarbaraO. (1977, B&W,13 minutes)
ILLUSIONS, a film by Julie Dash
It is 1942, one year after Pearl Harbor; the setting is National Studios, a Hollywood motion picture studio. Mignon Duprée, 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. This acclaimed drama follows Mignon's dilemma, Ester's struggle and the use of cinema in wartime Hollywood. Starring Lonette McKee, Roseanne Katon and Ned Bellamy. (1982, B&W 34 min.)
PRAISE HOUSE, a film by Julie Dash
Praise House, a collaboration with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the founder of Urban Bush Women, explores the source of creativity and its effect on three generations of African American women. Praise House reveals the emotional prison so many people live in, even as it celebrates the persistence of belief and creativity, and the splendid legacies African Americans have preserved against all odds. (1991, color, 25 min.)
BREATHS, a music video by Julie Dash
The music of Sweet Honey in the Rock and the AIDS Memorial Quilts provide a backdrop for this visually stunning remembrance of the many who died during the first decade of the AIDS pandemic. Produced in association with AIDSFILMS, Inc. and the Independent Television Service. (1995, color, 4 min)
Julie Dash's appearance is made possible by the Bob Allison (Allesee) Endowed Chair in Media, Wayne State University, Dept. of Communication.
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