Maya Cade Intro for Your Children Come Back to You + Claudine | IU Cinema | Sept. 1, 2022

On Sept. 1, 2022, IU Cinema screened Your Children Come Back to You (1979) and Claudine (1974) 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.
Your Children Come Back to You | Directed by Alile Sharon Larkin: Your Children Come Back to You is a contemporary allegory about values and assimilation. The film literalizes the meaning of a "mother country" by means of the story of a young girl, Tovi, torn between two surrogate mothers: one comfortably bourgeois, the other nationalist. Cinematography by Charles Burnett and co-starring Angela Burnett.
Claudine | Directed by John Berry: A unique film on the emotional truths of living under the big, omnipresent force of the welfare office, Claudine follows the titular character-played by the dynamic Diahann Carroll-as she raises her children by working as a domestic maid for rich, white families. Her life is changed when Roop (James Earl Jones), a charming garbageman, catches her fancy. The lives of both begin to feel richer and more worth living, but also more complicated.