Daughters of the Dust—Sundance Revisited Film Series
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DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (Julie Dash, 1991, 35mm, 113 mins)
Dash conjures the story of three generations of Gullah women on an island off the South Carolina coast in the first feature film by an African American woman to get national theatrical distribution and the first selected for the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. Her luminous masterpiece’s "impressionistic look at the Great Migration (who will go, who will stay, and at what cost?) combines a corporeal sense of history with poetic, often indirect and allegorical underpinnings” (Durga Chew-Bose). A singular meditation on heritage, identity, and the power of cultural memory. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
"Sundance Revisited" features a selection of films from our collection that had their American or world premieres at the festival.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Dash conjures the story of three generations of Gullah women on an island off the South Carolina coast in the first feature film by an African American woman to get national theatrical distribution and the first selected for the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. Her luminous masterpiece’s "impressionistic look at the Great Migration (who will go, who will stay, and at what cost?) combines a corporeal sense of history with poetic, often indirect and allegorical underpinnings” (Durga Chew-Bose). A singular meditation on heritage, identity, and the power of cultural memory. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
"Sundance Revisited" features a selection of films from our collection that had their American or world premieres at the festival.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT, United States
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Host or PublisherYale Film Archive
