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Going to Mars : the Nikki Giovanni project / a Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson film.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Giovanni, Nikki--Philosophy.
- Giovanni, Nikki.
- African American women authors.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African American women civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- Genre:
- documentary film.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1online resource (1 video file (102 minutes)) : sound, color with black and white sequences
- Other Title:
- Nikki Giovanni project
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2024]
- System Details:
- digital
- wide screen
- 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 subject₂s 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.
- Participant:
- Nikki Giovanni, Taraji P. Henson.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on August 5, 2024).
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2023.
- Description based on a videodisc record.
- OCLC:
- 1449655990
- Publisher Number:
- 738329267599
- K26759 Kino Lorber
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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