Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.

July 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 54

Total Comments: 14

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Roots Daughters / Jamaica, Guyana, Canada / 2006

This is an unusually refreshing short film told from a woman’s perspective about the female role within Rastafari faith and culture. Featuring former member of the I-Three’s, the back-up singers for Bob Marley & The Wailers, Judy Mowatt, it also features 15 other Rastafarian women who provide illuminating glimpses into the daily life, practices and philosophy of those within the still marginalized Jamaican community. Most intriguing is the provocative approach that filmmaker Bianca Nyavingi Brynda takes toward the elder men within the community. Long-held views of the woman as subservient to man are revealed with shocking matter-of-fact bluntness. When examined in light of the knowledge that the culture derives from a traditionally matriarchal influence, it’s especially disturbing.

by Marlin Tyree | Source: MVD Visual
18 Jul 2007 6:45 PM | Submit Comment

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