Four Women

Directed by Julie Dash
Dancer Linda Martina Young
Music Nina Simone
USA
1977
8 mins
16mm transferred to video
Colour

Four Women is an experimental dance film that employs the use of stylised movements and dress to express the spirit of black womanhood from an embryonic stage in Africa, through a struggle she wages to survive in America. The film is a visual animation inspired by a ballad written and performed by Nina Simone.