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From the 1840s to the 1940s, anonymous African American women made cloth dolls for their own children or for the white children they babysat. Black dolls, wounded, forgotten and beautiful, gathered over the years in Debbie Neff's collection and who lend here their features of a moving expressiveness to the women that a century of slavery, segregation and racism tried to silence. Far from being the mute witnesses of their suffering, their dreams and their courage, these objects inhabited by so many stories become, for the duration of the film, the intercessors of a discourse of self-affirmation and liberation.
From Sojourner Truth to Maya Angelou, LIKE DOLLS, I'LL RISE is traversed by the voices of those writers, poets and activists who have brought African-American history out of the shadows, as well as that of women, long ignored. The faces of flesh and canvas that Nora Philippe gives us to see are no longer just ghosts from the past but figures of resistance, which also take on their meaning in the Afro-feminist struggles of today.
A film by Nora PHILIPPE
United States, 2018, Documentary, 28 min
Director: Nora PHILIPPE
2018 | Festival Gorée Cinéma - Season 4, Senegal
* Selection - Open Air Cinema | Short Film Night
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