Going to Mars.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition, this beguiling documentary portrait follows poet and activist Nikki Giovanni as she approaches 80. The film explores Giovanni’s Afrofuturist-feminist philosophical outlook as well as her poignant relationship with her family, her political audacity, and her poetic eloquence, all knit together with a constant eye and ear for its subject’s own aesthetic verve. Looking back at a personal life and history cast in the long shadow of American racism, and forward to hopeful, possible futures, Giovanni acts as our guide and narrator, with refreshingly unorthodox filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson refraining from traditional chronologies or talking-head conventions. GOING TO MARS is fueled by constant intellectual engagement and radical imagination in the search for emotional and political fulfillment in a world of disenfranchisement.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kino Lorber, 2023.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Nikki Giovanni |
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2023. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Genre: | Documentary films. |
Electronic resources
https://innisfilidealab.kanopy.com/node/14527440
- A Kanopy streaming video