Cinematic Afterlives: Film Screening and Discussion
Cinematic Afterlives: Film Screening and Discussion
Film Synopsis
Daughters of the Dust is a story of the women of the Peazant family, part of the Gullah community living on an island off the coast of Georgia in the early 1900s. Dash’s film addresses gender, race, tradition, transition, modernity, migration and belonging through nuanced portrayals of the intimate lives of the film’s main characters over multiple generations.
Cinematic Afterlives is a new research project and part of the Race and Society research cluster at the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar. Organized by Professor Trish Kahle, this initiative is more than a film series and aims to create a space for social engagement with cinema and the history of slavery in the Black Atlantic, using a variety of lectures and panels, film screenings, and audience discussions. The project will also encourage greater public attention to the connections between histories and afterlives of slavery in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.
