Critical Writing Index

Don't Go to Dat Place and Fool Around Like Rich Girls:: Black Canadian Women Filmmakers and Video Artists

by Gabrielle Hezekiah

Cineaction, Fall 1993, no. 32, pp. 68-75

This article examines the significant and growing body of film and video work produced by black Canadian women. Offered here are provisional approaches to this burgeoning material, given that there is, as yet, no clearly formulated school of black Canadian film and video production by women.

ITEM 1993.019 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

From Nevis To... – Christine Brown

...Some Black Women, – Claire Prieto and Roger McTair

The Colour of Immunity – Glace W. Lawrence

Sisters in the Struggle – Dionne Brand & Ginny Strikeman

Black Mother, Black Daughter – Claire Prieto & Sylvia Hamilton

Speak It! – Sylvia Hamilton

Traces – Julia Browne Figuereo

Mami Wata – Monik Dofen

I is a long-memoried woman, – Frances-Ann Solomon

Colour Corrected – Selina Williams

Whisper of Kisses – Donna James

The Noise – Nadine K. Rowe

Maigre Dog – Donna James

Daughters of the Dust – Julie Dash