BLACK WOMEN’S HANDS
This program surrounds JOJOLO with depictions of Black women artists. Sarah Maldoror's TOTO BISSAINTHE (1984) chronicles her long-time friend and co-conspirator, the titular Haitian singer, in both the exteriority of performance and subjectivity of the backstage. HANDS OF INGE (1962) celebrates the sculptural craft of Ruth Inge Hardison and was edited by Hortense "Tee" Beveridge, the first Black woman to work as a unionized film editor. The 1962 documentary is among the rich constellation of citations in Simone Leigh and Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's CONSPIRACY (2022), a spellbinding mediation on the artistry, manual skill, and aesthetic labor of Black women across forms. Lebert Bethune & John Taylor JOJOLO 1966, 22 min, 16mm. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Sarah Maldoror TOTO BISSAINTHE 1984, 4 min, 16mm-to-DCP John W. Fletcher HANDS OF INGE 1962, 10 min, 16mm. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Simone Leigh & Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich CONSPIRACY 2022, 25 min, DCP