On April 8, Julie Dash will be joining us in Frankfurt. We are delighted to welcome the renowned filmmaker first for a masterclass on “Working in/with Cinema, TV & Music Video” at Goethe University, and then to gather for “In Conversation with Julie Dash”, an evening program of film screenings followed by a discussion at DFF. The DFF will also screen Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” on April 11.
The event is a cooperation between Kinothek Asta Nielsen e.V. and Konfigurationen des Films in collaboration with the cinema of the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum and the IFFF Dortmund+Köln.
www.kinothek-asta-nielsen.de | www.konfigurationen-des-films.de | www.dff.film | www.frauenfilmfest.com
PROGRAM
Film screening, Tuesday, April 8, 11 a.m., Film Room (7.312) IG-Farben-Haus
Admission free!
THE ROSA PARKS STORY
USA 2002, dir: Julie Dash, b: Paris Qualles, p: CBS, d: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, Cicely Tyson, 97 min.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus for a white man. In Montgomery, Alabama, she is arrested by the police for resisting the Jim Crow laws that regulated segregation in public spaces. Activists organize a 381-day bus boycott that becomes central to the mobilization of the black civil rights movement.
Masterclass, Tuesday 08.04., 1 – 2.30 pm, Eisenhower-Saal (1.314) IG-Farben-Haus
Julie Dash Masterclass: Working in/with Cinema, TV & Music Video
Admission free with registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlD4GWJpGARUkyn6AotLhgVWH8Fc8wL_4uJIu-CFWBfiT5Aw/viewform?usp=sharing
The event will be held in English
Julie Dash is not only a successful film director, she has been working for decades in various areas of media production – from cinema to television to music video. Her early films are seminal for Black (Independent) Cinema today. Since then, she has directed a number of television films and streaming series (including “Queen Sugar”) as well as music videos (for Tracy Chapman, among others). In a joint discussion, we will address questions such as: What is it like to navigate these different media landscapes – then and now? What creative challenges do different formats bring with them?
Film screening with discussion, Tue, 8.04., 8:15 pm, DFF
In Conversation with Julie Dash
Julie Dash is known for films about diasporic identities, racial justice and the lives of Black women. As part of the so-called “L.A. Rebellion”, she is a central figure in Black Independent Cinema, which created new forms of experimental and independent film. With DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST in 1991, she was the first African-American woman to have a nationwide US theatrical release. The evening program on April 8th will show three early films from her time as a film student at UCLA and in the context of the “L.A. Rebellion”. Afterwards, the director will talk to curator and artist Karina Griffith about the stages of her work in film and television.
FOUR WOMEN
USA 1975. Director, script, editor: Julie Dash. Cinematography: Robert Maxwell. Music: Nina Simone. Production design: Winfred Tennison, Cast: Linda Martina Young. 10 min., engl. OV.
DIARY OF AN AFRICAN NUN
USA 1977. Director, script, production: Julie Dash. Cinematography: Orin Mitchell. Script: Alice Walker. Cast: Barbara O, Barbara Young, Makimi Price, Ron Flagge, Renee Carraway. 13 min., engl. OV.
ILLUSIONS
USA 1982. Director, script: Julie Dash, Cinematography: Ahmed El Maanouni. Editor: Charles Burnett, Julie Dash. Music: Eugene Bohlmann. Production: Julie Dash. Cast: Lonette McKee, Roseann Katon. 34 min., engl. OV.
FOUR WOMEN: Nina Simone’s ballad of the same name, the dancer Linda Martina Young – four imaginations of black femininity. DIARY OF AN AFRICAN NUN is based on a short story by Alice Walker and revolves around the spiritual crisis of a nun. ILLUSIONS goes against the grain of Hollywood historiography in 1942: the passing of black production manager Mignon Duprée as white leads to her confronting racism.
Fr, 11.04., 6 pm, DFF
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
USA/GB 1991. Director, script: Julie Dash. Cinematography: Arthur Jafa. Editor: Joseph Burton, Amy Carey. Music: John Barnes. Production design: Kerry James Marshall, Cast: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara O, Trula Hoosier, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Adisa Anderson, Kaycee Moore. DCP von 35mm, 113 min., engl./Gullah OV.
The islands off the coast of South Carolina around 1900: a Gullah family gathers for a farewell meal before most of the members leave for the mainland. The film tells of rootedness and migration, of the coming together and disintegration of a family group. The focus is on the women as custodians of African cultural heritage.
Locations
DFF Cinema – German Film Institute & Film Museum
Schaumainkai 41
60596 Frankfurt am Main
www.dff.film
Reservations 069 961 220 220
U1, U2, U3, U8 / Schweizer Platz; U4, U5 / Willy-Brandt-Platz; Tram lines 15, 16 / Schweizer-/ Gartenstraße
Prices Cinema Ticket DFF Cinema
€9 | Concession* €7/€5
Featuring Julie Dash on April 8
€11 | Concessionary* €9/€6
*For detailed information on concessions, see the DFF website
IG Farben House, Goethe University
Film Room 7.312 & Eisenhower Hall 1.314
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
U1, U2, U3, U8 / Holzhausenstraße; Bus lines 64, 75 / Bremer Platz
Free admission
