I is a Long Memoried Woman

Synopsis: A drama/dance adaptation of a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. By drawing on elements of African culture such as music, sorcery and magic, it tells of a spiritual journey of an African woman taken in captivity to the Caribbean, her experiences as a slave, and how she survives being uprooted form her native land. Dramatised sequences are interspersed with Grace Nichol’s comments about her poems, placed in the context of Afro-Caribbean history.
Series: Black Arts Video Project, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.
Year of production: 1990
Availability: Out OF Distribution; 1998 sale £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) Arts Council 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p) Resources in Education and Training
Notes: Reviewed in British Council FVR 202.
Subjects: English language and literature
Keywords: Africa; Caribbean writers; colonial history; Nichols, Grace; poetry

Name: Arts on Film Archive, University of Westminster
Notes: Arts on Film Archive offers on-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK. In its first phase, the archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE. The collection is only available streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.

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