In an examination of the American healthcare system, Ours To Heal gathers together films that explore the concepts, actions and institutions involved with caring for and healing people both within and outside of dominant Western practices. Drawing inspiration from the feminist and economic thought of Angela Davis, this series connects how we care for, conceptualize, determine to heal and politicize the human body especially as imbued with the weighted concepts of Blackness, womanhood, and labor.
The Ours to Heal film line up can be viewed at online at the Maysles Documentary Center, and includes:
THE PEOPLES DETOX JENNA BLISS, 2018, 57MIN.
THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED LANA LIN, 2018, 98MIN.
THE POWER TO HEAL CHARLES BURNETT & DANIEL LOEWENTHAL, 2018, 56MIN.
I AM SOMEBODY MADELINE ANDERSON, 1970, 30MIN.
DOIN’ WHAT IT TAKES: BLACK FOLKS GETTING AND STAYING HEALTHY DONNA GOLDEN, 1994, 23MIN.
On Thursday, May 6th at 6PM EDT Maysles Documentary Center will be hosting a live zoom conversation with filmmakers Lana Lin (The Cancer Journals Revisited) and Jenna Bliss (The People's Detox) and moderated by Kazembe Balagun.
Copresented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films, as part of 1 Million Roses for Angela Davis – U.S. Edition.
