Self Divination
Leaving January 31
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12m
Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1989 • United States
The first part of Ulysses Jenkins’s VIDEO GRIOTS TRILOGY—a series of video meditations on history and culture in the which the filmmaker uses archival footage, photographs, image processing, and an elegiac soundtrack to construct an “other” history—SELF DIVINATION speaks poetically about the origins and realities of the African diaspora.
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