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Julie Dash

“I have never stopped working. It’s just that I’m not in the public eye that way. I had a good run with being highly visible, and now it’s time for other people to be highly visible—I have no problem with that. Let me just support them, and let me just keep doing what I’m doing, because at the end of the day it’s about the work.”

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    Diary of an African Nun

    DIARY OF AN AFRICAN NUN

    JULIE DASH United States, 1977

    Temptation knocks at commitment’s door with sounds of men, fire, and dancing in this heady early work from Julie Dash. Dynamic use of montage contrasts an ascetic life with the seductive pleasures of our persistent flesh, as the titular sister narrates her dilemma in mesmerizing, poetic voice-over.

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