Maya Cade Intro for Dreaming Rivers + Black Mother | IU Cinema | Sept. 22, 2022

On Sept. 22, 2022, IU Cinema screened Dreaming Rivers (1988) and Black Mother (2018) as part of Home Is Where the Heart Is: Black Cinema’s Exploration of Home, a series curated by IU Cinema’s fall 2022 guest programmer Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive. This virtual introduction by Cade preceded the screening.
Dreaming Rivers | Directed by Martina Attille: Dreaming Rivers is a film written and directed by Martina Attille for Sankofa Film & Video. In this allegorical work, actor Corinne Skinner Carter performs the role of Ms. T, a Black Caribbean woman in transition. Her children, Daughter (Angela Wynter), Sister (Nimmy March), and Sonny (Roderick Hart), sit at her bedside and attend to the unspoken intimacies of history and transnational belonging.
Black Mother | Directed by Khalik Allah: Part film, part baptism, in Black Mother director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Soaking up its bustling metropolises and tranquil countryside, Allah introduces us to a succession of vividly rendered souls who call this island home. Their candid testimonies create a polyphonic symphony, set against a visual prayer of indelible portraiture. Thoroughly immersed between the sacred and profane, Black Mother channels rebellion and reverence into a deeply personal ode informed by Jamaica’s turbulent history but existing in the urgent present.