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Artist's Choice Screening: The Watermelon Woman

Duration: 85 minutes
Dates: Tue 14 Jan 2025 20:30

Selected by artist Helen Cammock as her Artist’s Choice Screening. 
 

Fae Richards was a beautiful yet obscured Black actress from the 1930s. Despite appearing in many films, she only ever received one credit: The Watermelon Woman. The mystery of who she was perplexes Cheryl (Cheryl Dunye), a young Black filmmaker. She sets out to solve it by making a documentary about the forgotten star.

Garnering critical and audience acclaim, the romantic comedy is dedicated to the memory of, and inspired by, forgotten Black actresses and is now regarded as a landmark film in New Queer Cinema

The film is a fiction, but Cheryl Dunye says, “Sometimes you have to create your own history.” 

About Artist’s Choice Screenings: whenever possible, we invite artists to select film(s) to screen in DCA cinema as part of the Exhibition Events programme. Designed to expand on and complement the exhibition, we hope audiences enjoy the chance to consider themes explored by artists in a different way

Exhibition events

Exhibition
An image of a monochrome photograph of a person that has been distorted

Meet the Artists: Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor

Duration: 45 minutes
Galleries
Fri 6 Dec 2024
Exhibition
An image of a monochrome photograph of a person that has been distorted

Exhibition Preview: Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor

Duration: 2h
Galleries
Fri 6 Dec 2024
Exhibition
An image of a monochrome photograph of a person that has been distorted

In the Evening There is Feeling: Listening with Su Shaw

Duration: 1h30m
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Artist's Choice
A vintage looking photo of a women smiling at the camera wearing a headscarf

Artist's Choice Screening: For One More Hour With You

Duration: 55 minutes
Tue 11 Feb 2025
Exhibition
Rolls of patterned wall paper draped over a pole in a gallery space

In the Evening There is Feeling: Reading 'English Magic'

Duration: 1h30m
Thu 20 Feb 2025
Artist's Choice
A group of people dressed in white sit on a stage.

Artist's Choice Screening: West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

Duration: 113 minutes
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Exhibition
two prints with small white writing sit side by side one in green the other in blue

In Conversation: Lisa Williams and Susannah Thompson

Duration: 1h30m
Thu 13 Mar 2025