Artist's Choice Screening: The Watermelon Woman
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
In the Evening There is Feeling: Listening with Su Shaw
Artist's Choice Screening: For One More Hour With You
In the Evening There is Feeling: Reading 'English Magic'
Artist's Choice Screening: West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
