The WMA is pleased to screen Daughters of the Dust as accompaniment to the No Man’s Land: A Feminist Reimagining. The 1991 film highlights the exhibition’s themes of ambiguity, contradiction, and simultaneity as central features of women’s embodied existence, more specifically, Black women’s existence. With its powerful portrayal of the close-knit, multi-generational community of Gullah women on an island off the coast of South Carolina, the film explores notions of old and new Black femininity. Directed by Julie Dash, it was the first film directed by a Black woman in America to receive a wide release.