dir. Cheryl Dunye, 1996, 90 min.
This “fake documentary” stars the director as a fictionalized version of herself. Dunye plays a Black lesbian filmmaker who, captivated by an elusive, queer 1930s black film actress, decides to make a film about her.
Remarks after the film by Patricia White and Eleni Palis. Patricia White is a scholar of feminist film and Eugene Lang Research Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is author of Women's Cinema, World Cinema and co-author of The Film Experience. Eleni Palis is a PhD candidate in English and Cinema and Media Studies whose dissertation focuses on the reappropriation of classical Hollywood film fragments in contemporary American cinema.
Film Series copresented by Wolf Humanities Center and Penn Cinema and Media Studies. Program in collaboration with Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia.
Thanks to film series curators, Iggy Cortez, Alexander Kauffman, and Eleni Palis.
