« Ce moyen-métrage montre avec une rage rentrée le combat que mènent dans un studio de Hollywood dirigé par des Blancs, une assistante de production métisse et une chanteuse noire qui souhaiterait qu’on lui propose un rôle au lieu de la cantonner au doublage d’actrices blanches. Sous son ton léger, le film fulmine. » *Cahiers Du Cinéma (officiel)

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ILLUSIONS

In her 1982 short film Illusions, pioneering filmmaker Julie Dash fixed her penetrating gaze on the erasure of African-Americans in 1940s Hollywood. Decades later, what, if anything, has changed? Dash is best known for becoming the first black woman to secure a general cinema release with Daughters of the Dust, a seminal film about three generations of a Gullah matriarchy in South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century. It later inspired Beyoncé’s acclaimed 2016 visual album Lemonade, but in the 27 years since it premiered, only a handful of black women have managed to walk through the door that Dash so memorably kicked down. Here, the director, screenwriter, producer and academic talks to journalist Tamara Gausi about the enduring legacy of her films, the importance of centring black women on screen and the stories that Dash is yet to tell.

Attended by Tamara Gausi. Tamara is the co-editor of Equal Times, an online news platform focusing on global labour and social issues. She has worked as a staff writer for Time Out London, contributing editor for Time Out Lagos and editor-in-chief of The Bulletin (Brussels). As a freelance journalist she has been published by The Guardian, New Statesman, Press Gazette, New African Woman, Arise and many others.

DURATION : 34′
DIRECTED BY : Julie Dash
GENRE : Documentary
COUNTRY : United States

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DATE
22nd of februari 2018 I 7pm

LANGUAGE
English

LIEU
CINEMA GALERIES
Galerie de la Reine 26
1000 Bruxelles

PRICE
5€

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