Is a Long-memoried Woman

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Rating: ****
Audience: High School to Adult
Price: Public performance: $350.00
Date: Copyright 1990. Released 1991.
Descriptors: Blacks - History - Women.
Production Information: Live action, Stills. Produced by Ingrid Lewis. Color. 50 min.
Production Company: Yod Video
Available from: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 (212)925-0606
Cataloging: 811.5 Nichols, Grace||Afro-American women poets||Slavery - United States
Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Audience: High School to Adult
Price: Public performance: $350.00
Date: Copyright 1990. Released 1991.
Descriptors: Blacks - History - Women.
Production Information: Live action, Stills. Produced by Ingrid Lewis. Color. 50 min.
Production Company: Yod Video
Available from: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 (212)925-0606
Cataloging: 811.5 Nichols, Grace||Afro-American women poets||Slavery - United States
Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Price: Public performance: $350.00
Date: Copyright 1990. Released 1991.
Descriptors: Blacks - History - Women.
Production Information: Live action, Stills. Produced by Ingrid Lewis. Color. 50 min.
Production Company: Yod Video
Available from: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 (212)925-0606
Cataloging: 811.5 Nichols, Grace||Afro-American women poets||Slavery - United States
Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Date: Copyright 1990. Released 1991.
Descriptors: Blacks - History - Women.
Production Information: Live action, Stills. Produced by Ingrid Lewis. Color. 50 min.
Production Company: Yod Video
Available from: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 (212)925-0606
Cataloging: 811.5 Nichols, Grace||Afro-American women poets||Slavery - United States
Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Descriptors: Blacks - History - Women.
Production Information: Live action, Stills. Produced by Ingrid Lewis. Color. 50 min.
Production Company: Yod Video
Available from: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 (212)925-0606
Cataloging: 811.5 Nichols, Grace||Afro-American women poets||Slavery - United States
Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Production Information: Live action, Stills. Produced by Ingrid Lewis. Color. 50 min.
Production Company: Yod Video
Available from: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 (212)925-0606
Cataloging: 811.5 Nichols, Grace||Afro-American women poets||Slavery - United States
Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Production Company: Yod Video
Available from: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 (212)925-0606
Cataloging: 811.5 Nichols, Grace||Afro-American women poets||Slavery - United States
Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Available from: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 (212)925-0606
Cataloging: 811.5 Nichols, Grace||Afro-American women poets||Slavery - United States
Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Cataloging: 811.5 Nichols, Grace||Afro-American women poets||Slavery - United States
Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Awards: International Film & TV Festival of New York Gold Award, 1990.
Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Print Entry #: 3:1619
Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.; Reviewer: Marilyn Payne Phillips

A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman."
The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes.
The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.
A Gold Award winner at the International Film and Video Festival, I Is a Long-memoried Woman is a powerful and moving cinematic experience based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. This program by Frances-Anne Solomon is very successful at incorporating creative movement, archival photographs, and special effects to make a statement about the African slave woman's experience in a historical context. Men, primarily white, freely debased black women and black men were generally impotent - unable if not unwilling to be heroic. Nichols says, "The book is a celebration of the endurance, vitality, and spiritual strength of the black woman." The video is less articulate with its use of interview clips with Nichols. Her speech is halting, bound to earth in contrast to the soaring performances of the actresses and dancers. The choreography demonstrates strength, vitality, and an earthy, tongue-in-cheek angry humor when portraying the white slave owners in elaborate "white face" and period costumes. The review tape did have some sound problems two-thirds through the production; I hope that this is a fluke in an otherwise polished and professional program.

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Document maintained on server: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ by
Gary Handman, Head, Media Resources Center.
Last update 7/10/96. Server manager: webman@library.berkeley.edu