Daughters of the Dust

So the movies we have added are The Player.

Glengarry Glen Ross, Daughters of the Dust, Mississippi Masala, Reservoir Dogs, Delicatessen, Malcolm X, My Cousin Vinny, Chaplin.

And then our two fun winners are A League of Their Own and Sister Act.

So we got to go through this whole bracket, baby.

Yeah, it's great.

Keep going, fun movies.

Okay, number five is Daughters of the Dust, a drama about a Gullah family migrating north.

It stars Coralie Day, Barbara O. Jones, and Alva Rogers.

JEFFREY BROWN, J.F.A. was born and raised in Mississippi.

He started out in the film world, notably as cinematographer on Daughters of the Dust, the 1991 movie directed by his former wife, Julie Dash.

He would work with Spike Lee and Stanley Kubrick.

His turn to the art world came later.

I want to get things kicked off, but I think these movies are really interesting, and I'm pretty happy that I made the pairing for tonight's show.

I want to run through just some stats of how I think that Daughters of the Dust and Boys in a Hood are... really in concert with each other and these are like starkly different movies obviously but from starkly different filmmakers but i do think that they really are kind of in concert with each other um where daughters of dust is set in 1902 um and boys in the hood happens almost 90 years later.

And I think the fact there's a fascinating thing that happens in America that happened in America, where during that entire period, where a lot of things went in a lot of negative directions for black folks, but at least daughters in the dust was a movie where, um, post reconstruction, um, Black folks had some semblance of we're going to make it, but voice in the hood says we absolutely did not.

But let me kind of just run through some stuff between our two filmmakers, Julie dash and John Singleton in 1991.

I'm like, wait, that was weird.

That happened.

Anyway, we can get back to Daughters of the Dust now.

A movie vastly different from Onora, Daughters of the Dust.

Well, if you look him up, he's like the hugest now.

Right now he's the biggest probably sing- one of the biggest single artists in the world, like blue chip, right? But when I- well, before he was a cinema- he started as a cinematographer on a very small film called Daughters of the Dust, which was a huge influence on me.

As the first- when I saw Daugh- Daughters of the Dust, it was before I was thinking about being a cinematographer, I think.

Yeah, definitely well before.

And I remember looking at that film and understanding that a cinematographer is an artist.

Hmm.

And it led to, uh, Daughters of the Dust.

Came out in '82.

You can find it on YouTube.

And, I mean, he also was a cinematographer.

He shot Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust.

And then he shot Crooklyn for Spike Lee.

And he shot second unit on Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick.

Arthur Jafa is a New York artist.

artist slash cinematographer who did videos you may know like Solange's Cranes in the Sky and Don't Touch My Hair he's also a legendary DP on films like Daughters of the Dust and Crooklyn and he is also a multimedia visual artist and this fucking exhibition is absolutely so powerful it's mixed media it's He's very...

He was very involved in putting it together.

So, like, it's kind of laid out the way he wanted it.