Daughters of the Dust
Abounds with stunning motifs and tableaux, the iconography seemingly sourced from dreams as much as from history and folklore.
Daughters of the Dust
25th Anniversary 2K Restoration
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST is a portrait of the women in the Peazant family, who belong to the Creole Gullah culture - former slaves living in the Sea Islands who have been able to preserve much of their African cultural heritage. As they prepare to migrate, leaving their land and legacy for the promise of the North, conflict and struggles rise to the surface. It unfolds over the course of their final picnic in their current home; saturating the audience with impressionistic colors, African symbolism, Geechee-Gullah rituals, cooking, and dialect all expressing the complex resonances of the Lowcountry lifestyle. DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST is a post-slavery narrative about cultural memory, notions of home and belonging, and conflicts of black female identity.
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST is a portrait of the women in the Peazant family, who belong to the Creole Gullah culture - former slaves living in the Sea Islands who have been able to preserve much of their African cultural heritage. As they prepare to migrate, leaving their land and legacy for the promise of the North, conflict and struggles rise to the surface. It unfolds over the course of their final picnic in their current home; saturating the audience with impressionistic colors, African symbolism, Geechee-Gullah rituals, cooking, and dialect all expressing the complex resonances of the Lowcountry lifestyle. DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST is a post-slavery narrative about cultural memory, notions of home and belonging, and conflicts of black female identity.
Genre
Drama,
Romance,
African-American Experience
Runtime
113
Language
English
Director
Julie Dash
Writer(s)
Julie Dash
Cast
Alva Rogers,
Barbarao
FEATURED REVIEW
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Julie Dash’s boldly imaginative, ecstatically visionary drama, from 1991, is one of the best American independent films; she turns one family’s experience of the Great Migration into a vast mythopoetic adventure. The action is set in 1902, as four generations of the Peazant family, Gullah people ...
Played at
Fine Arts Theatre 11.25.16 - 12.01.16
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