Film
Sathima's Windsong
2010 · 55m · History · Documentary
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Overview
Shot in New York, Cape Town, St Helena and the Atlantic Ocean, Sathima's Windsong, is a lyrical portrait of South African jazz singer, Sathima Bea Benjamin. In her Chelsea Hotel apartment, home for over thirty years, she patches together her journeys, from apartheid's 'pattern of brokenness', to a chance meeting and recording with Duke Ellington in Paris, to making a life in New York. The narrative of her journeys are inter-woven with her music and the musings of folks who know her work. Like her haunting song, Windsong, the film is a meditation on displacement, exile and belonging.
Crew
- Daniel YonDirector
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 2010
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 55m
- Genres
- History, Documentary
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