GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT (F/F)
Joe Brewster & Michèle Stephenson | United States | 2023 | 102 min This masterfully produced look at the life of hugely influential African American poet and activist Nikki Giovanni is made instantly engaging by the presence of Giovanni herself. Profoundly charismatic and with a powerful intelligence, she has – as the film shows in detail – taken on the world as a black woman who has lived her life very much on her own idiosyncratic terms. Framed by its subject’s famous statement that “the trip...
Joe Brewster & Michèle Stephenson | United States | 2023 | 102 min This masterfully produced look at the life of hugely influential African American poet and activist Nikki Giovanni is made instantly engaging by the presence of Giovanni herself. Profoundly charismatic and with a powerful intelligence, she has – as the film shows in detail – taken on the world as a black woman who has lived her life very much on her own idiosyncratic terms. Framed by its subject’s famous statement that “the trip...
