Four Women (1975 film)

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Four Women
Directed by Julie Dash
Produced byWinfred Tennison
StarringLinda Martina Young
Cinematography Robert Maxwell
Music by Nina Simone
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
8 minutes
CountryUnited States

Four Women is a 1975 short experimental film produced and directed by Julie Dash featuring music by Nina Simone. [1]

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Summary

Dancer Linda Martina Young captures the spirit of four women: Aunt Sarah, Saffronia, Sweet Thing and Peaches to the Nina Simone ballad Four Women. [2] [3] The women represent stereotypes of black women as they attempt to survive in America. [4]

Production

Linda Martina Young choreographed the dance performance, which Dash refers to as a "choreopoem". [5]

The film is celebrated as one of the first experimental films by a black woman filmmaker. The film, unlike others that portrayed the positive aspects of black womanhood, explored the negative realities many black women face in America. [6]

Restoration

In addition to the original 16mm rolls, a new print was created from the color negative A/B rolls and original track negative. [7]

Screenings

References

  1. ↑ Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (1995). Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary . Greenwood Publishing Group. p.  99. ISBN   9780313289729. four women.
  2. ↑ "Four Women | UCLA Film & Television Archive". www.cinema.ucla.edu.
  3. ↑ "May 2, 2017 – Saltwater Stories". Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ "::cinenova catalogue:: detail for Four Women". www.cinenova.org.[ dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Julie Dash | The HistoryMakers". www.thehistorymakers.org.
  6. ↑ Dozier, Ayanna (4 July 2017). "No happy returns: aesthetics, labor, and affect in Julie Dash's experimental short film, Four Women (1975)". Feminist Media Studies. 17 (4): 616–629. doi:10.1080/14680777.2017.1326561. S2CID   148678504.
  7. ↑ "Four Women | UCLA Film & Television Archive". www.cinema.ucla.edu.
  8. ↑ "Four Women". www.twn.org.
  9. ↑ "Brooklyn Museum: Julie Dash Film Marathon April 2017". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
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