25th Anniversary Restoration
Friday, January 20 | 8 pm
Saturday, January 21 | 5:30 pm
Sunday, January 22 | 2 pm
Released in 1991, Julie Dash’s independent feature Daughters of the Dust was the first film directed by an African-American woman to secure theatrical release in the United States. It unfolds in the summer of 1902 as members of the Peazant family prepare to leave their home in the Sea Islands and seek a new life in the North. Grounded in the multi-faceted relationships that bind three generations of Peazant women across time and space, Daughters of the Dust is a richly cinematic evocation of the distinctive Gullah culture that emerged in the Low Country regions of Georgia and South Carolina after the end of the Civil War. It is also a powerful meditation on cultural heritage, religion, and the pernicious legacy of American slavery. Praised by critics and scholars for its singular voice and vision, the film’s dreamlike, lushly poetic style recently served as the inspiration for Beyonce’s 2016 visual album, Lemonade.
Director Julie Dash 1991 USA 112 minutes PG DCP
