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August 5, 2012
NarrativeShorts

Drift

August 5, 2012
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Dreamcatchers

August 5, 2012
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Amor Em Jogo

August 5, 2012
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Solace

August 5, 2012
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Walking Home

August 4, 2012
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A Lovers Call

By Indie Means Necessary

The BlackStar Film Festival is an annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and of global indigenous communities, showcasing films by black people from around the world.

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  • "My skin is tan My hair is fine My hips invite you my mouth like wine Whose little girl am I? Anyone who has money to buy What do they call me My name is SWEET THING My name is Sweet Thing" . . Still from @gabby3shabby's "The Tale of Four" Words "Four Women" by Nina Simone. "For African American women artists of my generation, “Four Women” became the core of works to come, notably Julie Dash’s film of the same name, and it should be regarded a direct ancestor of Ntozake Shange’s "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." This Simone song was a call heard by Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, and countless artists who come to mind as women who gave us a whole generation of the stories of Aunt Sara, Safronia, Sweet Thing, and Peaches." — Thulani Davis @villagevoice . . #byindiemeansnecessary #bsff17 #blackstarfilmfestival #womenmakemovies #shortfilm
  • #FBF to the @thetaleoffour crew at #BSFF17! . . #byindiemeansnecessary #filmfestival #indiefilm #gaboureysidibe #womenmakemovies
  • "My skin is brown my manner is tough I'll kill the first mother I see my life has been too rough I'm awfully bitter these days because my parents were slaves What do they call me My name is PEACHES" . . We had the pleasure of viewing #JulieDash's "Four Women" last night @lightboxfilmcenter. Filmed on 16mm, it depicts dancer Linda Martina Young portraying the women described in #NinaSimone’s stirring ballad by the same name. The four women express the way they view themselves and how the way they see themselves is due to how society sees them. The final woman Peaches is a representation of how, blackness displays itself as the ability to empower the body to overcome its own against various racial and gender-specific forms of oppression. . . #byindiemeansnecessary #womenmakemovies #blackwomenfilmmakers #shortfilm
  • "Despite #BarkleyHendricks' explicitly apolitical stance, he did create a few paintings that took a clear political position. On view at @bowdoincollege, a still life entitled, "Star Spangled Chitlins" which depicts an American flag spilling out of a brown chair. Hendricks intimates a subtle political message: the idea that the American flag, all crumpled up, looked like chitlins, a stew made from the bowels of pigs (considered the worst cut of meat) that was historically eaten by slaves. The dish is now considered an African-American Thanksgiving delicacy. Here, Hendricks seems to both celebrate and abominate America." . . Pictured: Barkley L. Hendricks, Star Spangled Chitlins, 1967. Courtesy of Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Via: @artsy
  • Director #DeeRees (Pariah, Bessie, Mudbound) was awarded the 2017 @sundanceorg Vanguard Award, here's an excerpt from her exceptional speech, "It has been almost 90 years since the United Artists Theatre, which we stand next to, first opened. But it’s been only 47 years since the United Artists released pioneering director Ossie Davis’ first film. It has been 75 years since my grandmother’s Louisiana school truncated Blacks’ education at 11th grade so they would not have to give them high school diplomas. But it’s been 47 years since she earned her bachelor’s degree at Tennessee State University anyway. It has been 63 years since the Supreme Court ruled on Brown vs. Board of Education. But it’s only been 28 years since I was bussed across town to middle school as part of an integration program in Nashville, Tennessee, in a school system that was still practically segregated. You see, the distance between two narratives is very elastic, sometimes stretching farther apart, sometimes collapsing together in the now, now, now, now. ... It has been 204 days since a demagogue took office. And so it has only been 34 hours since white supremacist terrorists raged with virtual impunity through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. It has been 52 years since the Voting Rights Act was passed; it has been 50 months since the Voting Rights Act was undone. ... It has been only 5 minutes since I have accepted this Vanguard Award. And it has been 11 days since the attorney general tells us that he will end affirmative action. “Our country has changed,” Chief Justice Roberts says. But we can only go by the evidence, and we know what happens next. Telling stories is one way to defend against “next”—no, to record “next”—no, to determine what happens next ... It’s impossible to know where to begin. Our history is perpetually being rewritten as we live it. We won’t know what it is until we look back and chart our slow trajectory followed by the rhythmic unbroken line of now, now, now, now. Our voices are all that we have, now." . . 📷 Richard Burbridge @gq
  • On view until September 8, "Lossless" @lpgallery. Featured here @sosena' short docu-memoir "Itifworq/Double Gold," which centers the reflections of Itifworq Kifle, a 94 year old matriarch. She speaks on her time as a young guerilla fighter in the Ethiopian anti-fascist resistance. . . #byindiemeansnecessary #bsff17 #blackstarfilmfestival #documentary #shortfilm
  • @directher accepting the Richard Nichols Luminary Award at #BSFF17 @worldcafelive . . . #byindiemeansnecessary #blackstarfilmfestival #blackstar17
  • The beautiful @fiyawata during the #BSFF17 Awards @worldcafelive . . . #byindiemeansnecessary #blackstarfilmfestival #blackstar17