Julie Dash

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Julie Dash

Julie Dash (born October 22, 1952 in Long Island City , New York ) is an American filmmaker. Her film Daughters of the Dust (1991) is considered one of the most important works of independent film of the 20th century.

Life

Dash's father was a member of the Gullah community and came from the Sea Islands in South Carolina . He worked in New York as a travel agent in the clothing trade. Her mother was a saleswoman. She grew up in poor conditions in the New York slums of the Queensbridge Houses . She worked as a director through film courses at the Studio Museum in Harlem, at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and at the University of California, Los Angeles .

Act

Dash worked out his own mission from elements of tradition and identity. She was best known for her unusual narrative style in Daughters of the Dust (1991), which was inspired by her origins. The film was also influenced by Spencer Williams' The Blood of Jesus (1941) . She once said of Daughters : “Instead of a western and linear story, I tell like a griot , like a traditional African storyteller. He is invited to family celebrations and then recites the family story. So I also jump from one event to another, sometimes I am in the past, sometimes in the future, then I go far and return to the present. You can imagine how that confused the critics! ”This non-linear narrative style is not dissimilar to that in Ali LeRoi's drama The Obituary of Tunde Johnson (2019) or Kasi Lemmons ' Eve's Bayou (1997).

Awards

In a survey of film critics by the BBC, Dash's film Daughters of the Dust (1991) was named 10th best film made by a woman in 2019.

Films (selection)

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Darlene Clark Hine (Ed.) Black Women in America, 2nd Ed. 2005, https://www.academia.edu/2645714/Julie_Dash
  2. ↑ a b c d e Vera Graaf: Julie Dash: Majesty in black. In: zeit.de . April 24, 1992, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ evh: Top Ten: These are the best films by women. In: Spiegel Online . November 26, 2019, accessed May 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dash, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Island City , New York