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Saint Heron Presents: Daughter Of The Dust Q + A w. Julie Dash, Arthur Jafa + Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
I create my work to be shared. I want younger artists to transcend what I’ve done, and I see that happening" ~ @JulieDash
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Julie Dash Tells the Story Behind the Making of ‘Daughters of the Dust’ on Vogue Video
Um, how did I not know that Kerry James Marshall was the production designer on Daughters of the Dust?
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Memorable Viewing from 2020
Betty Tells Her Story (Liane Brandon, 1972)
Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman, 2020)
Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode (Nick Abrahams & Jeremy Deller, 2008)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, 2019)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952)
Love Is the Message, the Message is Death (Arthur Jafa, 2016)
The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves, 1959)
In My Room (Mati Diop, 2020)
I didn’t see many movies in this weird year - not by my usual standards, anyway - but I still wanted to record some kind of snapshot of my viewing year. Obviously I didn’t catch much of anything theatrically. I saw Little Women at an MJR with my wife and daughter on January 1st, Uncut Gems a week later, and Varda by Agnès at the Detroit Film Theatre in late January. Just days before things started closing, I passed an hour in the cafe at the Maple Theater, where Portrait of a Lady on Fire was playing, and hoped I’d get back there to see the film before it left (I didn’t).
Also memorable, my siblings and I thoroughly debriefed Bill & Ted Face the Music over a Zoom call, having previously planned to see that together on a trip out west. Then there’s the Parasite Blu-ray that, due to the temporary closure of the public library, sat beside my television for something like four months, long enough that I’d stop noticing it. Movie-adjacent (what’s the difference?), I snuck in episodes of The History of the Seattle MarinersandLast Dance, sometimes in 15-minute chunks when I wouldn’t in the way / taxing the broadband. I loved both. And if I’m recapping 2020 accurately, I can’t overlook the three seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender that my daughter and I watched (first time) Saturday mornings over roughly six months.
Anyway, we’ve all got such stories this year. These are mine…
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