Three Provocative Works by Zeinabu Davis at Filmforum
Filmforum presents tonightt 8 at LACE “Wimmin With a Mission,” three provocative, distinctive films by African-American experimentalist Zeinabu irene Davis that celebrate “the goddess within us all.”
The 17-minute “Cycles” (1988) and the 51-minute “A Powerful Thang” (1991) deal with black women getting in touch with themselves, their bodies and their ancestral culture; “Thang” goes further to express a woman’s longing for a man (who turns out to be the one to wants to “take it slow”). “A Powerful Thang,” which of course refers to sex, leavens its cultural and feminist seriousness with gentle humor in regard to romance.
Davis’ four-minute rap film “A Period Piece” (1991), and Greta Snider’s four-minute “Blood Story” (1990) approach the taboo of menstruation in very different but equally effective ways.
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