If this ain't heaven / by Roberta Cantow ; photographed, edited and produced by Roberta Cantow.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Cantow, Roberta, film producer, film director, director of photography, editor of moving image work.

Creshevsky, Noah, composer.

Cohen, Alice Eve, composer.

Buffalo Rose Productions, production company, film distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social life and customs.

African Americans.

Loneliness.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (28 min.) : digital, sound, color

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Buffalo Rose Productions, [1983]

Language Note:

Closed captioning available.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

If This Ain't Heaven offers a portrait of an African American man that may very well challenge any number of sterotypes and assumptions about masculinity and African American men. The film shows us the very private side of Mr. G, a seemingly ordinary man, by allowing us inside his home where he interacts in a most loving, charming and humorous way with his cat, Africa. It is a kind of performance, and Mr. G - who speaks to and for his cat - becomes the "ventriloquist/artist par excellence." One can debate whether Mr. G is lonely or not, but his life is most assuredly enhanced by the story that he has invented about himself and the cat, and the manner in which he has filled in the details.

Credits:

Music, Noah Creshevsky, Alice Eve Cohen.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 28, 2022).

Publisher Number:

rc-heaven Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.