Another Building; an artistic exploration of history and place
An essay published in The Scholar & Feminist Online (Spring 2009) in which Gabri Christa writes about the making of two of her another building films.
AN EXCERPT
Writing this essay about my film series, which places narrative dance in and around historical buildings from the Dutch-African Diaspora, proved difficult. Obviously, I thought about what I wanted for the films when I conceived of them; I talked about the meaning in several Q & A sessions after screenings; I wrote funding requests; I communicated my intentions to my collaborators (the costume designer, director of photography, composer, and editor). In all of these efforts to get the films going, nothing challenged me more than transferring the clarity I found in creating the films into writing. How could I, on paper, combine the many elements and sources of my work? How could I communicate my motivation? In what context could I place it?
Christa, Gabri. "Another Building Dancing: Making Quarantine and Savoneta." In The Scholar and Feminist Online, no. 7.2 Rewriting Dispersal: Africana Gender Studies, guest edited by Christine Cynn and Kim F. Hall. New York, NY: Barnard Center for Research on Women, Spring 2009.
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