*TWN DVD Releases: LOCATIONS OF THE M/OTHERSHIP & L’ESPRIT PRÊT-À-PARTEGER
directed by Jamika Ajalon*
TWN is proud to release two new titles by filmmaker, performance artist and
musician Jamika Ajalon. In her works, Ajalon reshapes conventional film
traditions to reflect upon art and culture.
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LOCATIONS OF THE M/OTHERSHIP: BLACK WOMEN AS FUGITIVE ARCHETYPE OF
RESISTANCE
A live audio/visual installation using images of subversive and legendary
Black women and excerpts from sci-fi films and TV series. Ajalon explores
the intersection of Black women’s representations and subjective identities
as simultaneously a site of both resistance and possible futures. The trick
is to elucidate her space in history and beyond as an archetype of
resistance not solely against oppressive forces but also for future worlds
which allow for fluid ‘free’ existences.
Jamika Ajalon | experimental | 20 minutes | 2009 | $175
http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1240&card=price
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L’ESPRIT PRÊT-À-PARTEGER
Jamika Ajalon
28 min, Germany/Senegal
Documents an art workshop held in Dakar, Senegal, in 2008, where artists
from African and Europe explore issues surrounding fashion, sport and
diasporic art and identities. The artists collaborate with each other and
locals to create work which is built on cultural exchange, dismantling
antiquated frames of essentialist Black and African identity aesthetic and
narratives, but also the ever present interchange between European and
African art and practice on an international scale.
Features interviews with photographers, fashion designers, visual and
perfomance artists including Zohra Opoku, Ndiaga Diaw, Astrid S. Klein,
Zille Homma Hamid, Nafytoo Diop, Simone Gilges, Freidrich M. Ploch, Philip
Metz, Athi-Patra Ruga, Ulé Barcelos, Lolo Veleko, Goddy Leye, Mamadou Gomis,
Hubert Mahela-Kamba and Akindobe Akinbiyi.
Jamika Ajalon | documentary | 28 minutes | 2009 | $175
http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1239&card=price
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Also by Jamika Ajalon
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Memory Tracks
A woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown follows the afroed spirit of a
revolutionary past through London's streets. Ajalon uses the camera as the
means for reflexive analysis of black female subjectivity and performances
of resistance in urban spaces, specifically within the context of London's
Portobello and Brixton.
Jamika Ajalon | documentary | 8 minutes | 1996 | $175
http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=949&card=price
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Shades
Explores the issues around dark and light skin in the African American
community. Drawing on erotic imagery and the relation between a light
skinned woman and a darker skinned Lesbian, this video questions what
exactly is meant by "Black enough".
Jamika Ajalon | experimental | 12 minutes | 1994 | $125
http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=950&card=price
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Intro to Cultural Skitzo-Frenia
An experimental documentary exploring the lives, views of people who don't
fit or live outside the definitions regulating race ("i.e. black enough"),
gender, or sexuality.
Jamika Ajalon | experimental documentary | 10 minutes | 1993 | $175
http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=948&card=price
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