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Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification

Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification 1979

Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification 1979 -

Overview:Made in collaboration with performer Yolanda Vidato, Water Ritual #1 examines Black women’s ongoing struggle for spiritual and psychological space through improvisational, symbolic acts. Shot in 16mm black-and-white, the film was made in an area of Watts that had been cleared to make way for the I-105 freeway, but ultimately abandoned. Though the film is set in contemporary L.A., at first sight, Milanda and her environs (burnt-out houses overgrown with weeds) might seem to be located in Africa or the Caribbean, or at some time in the past. Structured as an Africanist ritual for Barbara McCullough’s “participant-viewers,” the film addresses how conditions of poverty, exploitation and anger render the Los Angeles landscape not as the fabled promised land for Black migrants, but as both cause and emblem of Black desolation. (Jacqueline Stewart)

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Release: Runtime: 6 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 10 / 10 by 1 users Popularity: 0.0793 Budget: $0 Revenue: $0 Language: English

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