Magical Realism
Kathleen Collins said, “No one is going to mythologize my life. No one is going to refuse me the right to explore my experiences of life as normal experiences, neither outside nor inside.”
For Week 6 of Black Is Not A Genre, we’re talking magical realism with another landmark double-dip, featuring Kathleen Collins’ ethereal Black intellectual relationship drama Losing Ground (1982) and Kasi Lemmons’ dark, ancestral mystery, Eve’s Bayou (1997).
Featured guest:
Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich is the writer and director on the feature film Madame Négritude - Her work has screened all over the world including at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and in Film Festivals such as Doclisboa, True / False, Images Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, and Blackstar Film Festival. She has been featured in Essence Magazine, Studio Museum’s Studio Magazine, ARC Magazine, BOMB Magazine, Guernica Magazine, Small Axe journal among others. She is the recipient of a 2020 SF Film Rainin Grant, a 2019 Rema Hort Mann Award, a 2019 UNDO fellowship and grant from Uniondocs / Just Films, a 2015 TFI Future Filmmaker Award and a 2014 Princess Grace Award in film. Her work has been recognized by the Time Inc. Black Girl Magic Emerging Director's series, the National Magazine (ELLIE) Awards and she has received grants from the National Black Programming Consortium and Glassbreaker Films. Madeleine has a degree in Film and Photography from Hampshire College and has an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University.