I Is a Long Memoried Woman

Réalisé par Frances-Anne Solomon

Royaume-Uni, 1990 (fiction, 50 minutes, couleurs, anglais)

Description du film [en anglais] :
« Adapted from the award-winning book of poems by Guyanese writer Grace Nichols, this extraordinary video chronicles the journey of the unnamed African woman from her homeland to slavery in the Caribbean. It interweaves an original music score and fantastic choreography to tell this evocative first person narrative, which culminates in a personal liberation. »
-- francesannesolomon.com (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Ingrid Lewis, Frances-Anne Solomon
Source originale :	I is a Long Memoried Woman, un livre de Grace Nichols
Produit par :	Ingrid Lewis, Frances-Anne Solomon, Gary Tuck, David Wilkinson
Interprètes principaux :	Adjoa Andoh, Leonie Forbes
Montage images :	Allen Charlton
Musique :	Dominique Le Gendre
Société de production :	Leda Serene Films

(sources)

Citation sur I Is a Long Memoried Woman [en anglais]

« As film-maker, [Frances-Anne] Solomon takes certain key ideas from the words and phrases in the collection [I Is A Long Memoried Woman by Grace Nichols], such as travel in space, and memory, and spirit, in order to release the potential inherent in the poetry. She further intensifies these through the camera's focus on the Black body. This body, as the film progresses, takes on a chameleon-like expressive force as it combines with other images and sounds. The word 'is' as in the creole construction 'I is' is accessed for its sense of embodiment of all women, a kind of 'essence' of the female spirit that the poem uses in its movement across time as the speaker becomes every African Caribbean woman who is the product of enslavement and enforced exile. »
-- Jean Antoine-Dunne (source)

Bibliographie sur I Is a Long Memoried Woman

Brèves parties d'articles de revue scientifiques

ANTOINE-DUNNE, Jean. « Words Are Not Enough », Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 25, no. 2 (2017). (pp. 53-54) [en anglais]

Sites Web sur I Is a Long Memoried Woman

« IMDb: I Is a Long Memoried Woman », Internet Movie Database, Inc, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193237/reference. [en anglais]