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DVD

Going to Mars : the Nikki Giovanni project

Call Number

  • DVD 921 G512G (CEN, POW)

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Languages

In English, with optional Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. Spanish subtitles not listed on container.

Performers

Nikki Giovanni, Kai Giovanni, Thomas Giovanni, Virginia C. Fowler, Novella Nelson, Toure ; with the voice of Taraji P. Henson.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2024]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"Shortlisted for an Academy Awardʼ for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is a beguiling documentary portrait that 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 Michl̈e 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."--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a documentary in 2023.

Bonus features: Additional scenes ; trailer.

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