Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST

Event time: 
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center (WALL53), Auditorium See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Julie Dash tells the story of three generations of Gullah women on an island off the South Carolina coast in DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, screening as part of the “Treasures from the Yale Film Archive” series with an introduction by Yasmina Price. Durga Chew-Bose writes that the film’s “impressionistic look at the Great Migration (who will go, who will stay, and at what cost?) combines a corporeal sense of history with poetic, often indirect and allegorical underpinnings.” DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST was the first feature film by an African-American woman to get national theatrical distribution and the first selected for the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.

A presentation of the Yale Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney with support from Paul L. Joskow ’70 M.Phil., ’72 Ph.D.

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