Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema Declue Jennifer
Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema Declue Jennifer In Visitation, Jennifer DeClue shows how Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers draw from historical archives in order…
Specifikacia Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema Declue Jennifer
Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema Declue Jennifer
In Visitation, Jennifer DeClue shows how Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers draw from historical archives in order to visualize and reckon with violence suffered by Black women in the United States. Through their use of editing, performance, and cinematic experimentation, these filmmakers intervene in the production of Blackness and activate new ways of seeing Black women and telling their stories. DeClue argues that these filmmakers--including Kara Walker, Kara Lynch, Tourmaline, and Ja'Tovia Gary--create spaces of mourning and reckoning rather than voyeurism and pornotropy.
In so doing, Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers channel spirits that haunt archives and create cinematic arenas Theorizing these films as a form of conjure work, DeClue shows how these filmmakers raise the specters of Black women from the past and invite them to reveal history from their point of view.