*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. ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ Also by Jamika Ajalon ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ How to Order ------------------------------------------------------------ Online: Visit www.twn.org and use our new shopping cart to place your credit card or PayPal order. Fax: Print our order form and fax it to (212) 594-6417. Mail: Send our order form to Third World Newsreel, 545 8th Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Phone: Call us directly at (212) 947-9277 ext. 11. Payment: We accept institutional purchase orders, checks, money orders, credit cards and PayPal accounts. Remember to add $20 for shipping and handling. ------------------------- Roselly A. Torres Rojas Distribution & Marketing Director Third World Newsreel ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu