Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary • 2015 • United States
Employing intricately hand-altered archival footage of Black women speaking on the push for liberation and freedom, director Ja’Tovia Gary crafts a meditative invocation of transcendence as a means of restoration.
Up Next in Three Short Films by Ja’Tovia Gary
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Quiet as It’s Kept
Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary • 2023 • United States
Through a bold amalgamation of original and archival footage—of everything from Toni Morrison discussing her novel THE BLUEST EYE to TikTok videos to abstract animation—director Ja’Tovia Gary untangles complex ideas around beauty and Black womanhood.
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The Giverny Document
Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary • 2019 • United States
Filmed in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT is a multitextured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Filmmaker and artist Ja’Tovia Gary unlea...
