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A film of spellbinding visual beauty and brilliant resonant performances, Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust (1991) has become a landmark of independent film. Dash’s rapturous vision of black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. See this visual stunner & astonishing family portrait on the big screen at Moxie Cinema, TENTATIVELY RESCHEDULE Wednesday, March 11 @ 7pm. The Essential Arthouse series is free for Moxie Members. Tickets on sale now. See the full 2025 Essential Arthouse series below.Daughters of the Dust (NR, 112 min.)
Warmly received and lavishly praised for its beauty and dreamlike narrative, it spins a misty magical tale of the Gullah women on the Sea Islands off the Southeastern United States. It was the first feature film by a Black woman to have a wide release. When it premiered in New York in 1991, it ran for four months straight and sold out weekends, but for decades, Daughters of the Dust languished as if worthless. While Dash and cinematographer Arthur Jafa continued working, the film’s success did not result in further feature film deals. Recently rediscovered, it has inspired two major works of protest art from Beyoncé and Solange Knowles. The screenplay was displayed as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition on Black radical women artists, We Wanted a Revolution. [The Modern]
Stories That Changed Film Forever: Essential Arthouse 2025 @ Moxie Cinema
January 15: The Red Shoes (1948)
February 19: Daughters of the Dust (1991)
March 19: Vagabond (1985)
April 16: Chungking Express (1994)
May 21: The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
June 18: My Own Private Idaho (1991)
July 16: Persona (1966)
August 20: La haine (1995)
September 17: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
October 15: Onibaba (1964)
November 19: The 400 Blows (1959)
December 17: La Strada (1954)
Tickets are $11/Adults, $9/Students & Seniors, and Free for Moxie Members
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