THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT
(SINGLE CHANNEL)
a film by Ja’Tovia Gary
FEATURE PRESENTATION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 • 9 PM
AVAILABLE IN NOVA SCOTIA
2019 / USA / 42 mins
This cinematic poem explores the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance figures, while interrogating the histories of those bodies as spaces of forced labour and commodified production. Directed by the Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary, Giverny was shot on location in Harlem and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France.
This innovative film is a technical triumph, combining direct animation on archival 16mm film, found video footage, woman-on-the-street interviews, and montage editing techniques. —Tori Fleming
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Ja’Tovia Gary
Ja'Tovia Gary is a director and producer based in Brooklyn, New York, known for The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (2019), An Ecstatic Experience (2015) and Cakes Da Killa: No Homo (2013).