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Ulysses Jenkins: Video Griot

Self Divination

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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