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Daughters of the dust

Title: Daughters of the dust [motion picture] / American Playhouse Theatrical Films in association with WMG ; a Geechee Girls Production ; produced by Julie Dash.
Publication: New York : Kino, 1991.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	C.1 REEL 3 OF 3	Moving image	By appointment only	M16 4364 D C.1 REEL 3 OF 3 C.1 REEL 3 OF 3	Offsite
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	C.1 REEL 1 OF 3	Moving image	By appointment only	M16 4364 D C.1 REEL 1 OF 3 C.1 REEL 1 OF 3	Offsite

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Description

3 film reels (113 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.

Summary

Dash's film is set among the Gullah people of Georgia's Sea Islands, used as an entry point in the 18th and 19th centuries for incoming slave ships. Isolated from the large plantations controlled by white slaveowners, the Gullah or Geechee people retained the customs and belief systems of their African forebears. In this turn-of-the-century drama, Viola Peazant, a missionary on the mainland, returns to her ancestral home to guide family members to a new life in the North. Vehemently opposed to this migration, is the formidable matriarch, Nana Peazant who believes that the family will be diluted of its memory and strength if it is so dispersed. Her ally in this attitude is Yellow Mary, a world-weary traveler, who has retreated to this island refuge from a hostile, intolerant world. Through the interviews of the photographer Snead, the legends and rituals of Ibo belief mesh with those of Islam and Christianity and surface in dreamlike sequences. Bridging the past with the present is the character of the Unborn Child who embodies both the expanse of collective memory and future promise. (Circulates).

Subjects

Feature films
Women > Fiction
African Americans > Georgia > Sea Island > Drama
African American women > Fiction
African Americans > Fiction

Credits (note)

Producer, director, Julie Dash; cinematography, Arthur Jaffa Rogobodiyan; editor, Amy Carey and Joseph Burton; music, John Barnes.

Performer (note)

Adisa Anderson, Barbara-O, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Cora Lee Day, Kaycee Moore, Alva Rogers, Tommy Hicks, Kai-Lynn Warren.

Title

Daughters of the dust [motion picture] / American Playhouse Theatrical Films in association with WMG ; a Geechee Girls Production ; produced by Julie Dash.

Imprint

New York : Kino, 1991.

Credits

Producer, director, Julie Dash; cinematography, Arthur Jaffa Rogobodiyan; editor, Amy Carey and Joseph Burton; music, John Barnes.

Cast

Adisa Anderson, Barbara-O, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Cora Lee Day, Kaycee Moore, Alva Rogers, Tommy Hicks, Kai-Lynn Warren.

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Barbara-O.

Day, Cora Lee.

Anderson, Adisa.

Dash, Julie.

Rogers, Alva.

Branch Call Number

M16 4364 D

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