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Ailey - Film
Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist
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Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contoursof this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduringchoreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleledbeauty. Told through Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews withthose who intimately knew him, director Jamila Wignot weaves together a resonant biography of anelusive visionary.
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Jamila Wignot Film's Director
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Nothing prepares you for the experience of Ailey—the emotional, spiritual, aural, and visual overwhelmthe senses. As a filmmaker, I am drawn to stories about artists like Alvin Ailey—innovators whotenaciously follow their own voice and in doing redefined their chosen forms. Ailey’sdances—celebrations of African American beauty and history—did more than move bodies; they openedminds. His dances were revolutionary social statements that staked a claim as powerful in his own timeas in ours: Black life is central to the American story and deserves a central place in American art and onthe world stage. A working-class, gay, Black man, he rose to prominence in a society that made everyeffort to exclude him. He transformed the world of dance and made space for those of us on themargins—space for black artists like Rennie Harris and me.I am inspired by subjective documentary portraits like Tom Volf’s Maria by Callas and Raoul Peck’s I AmNot Your Negro, and by the poetic cinematic approaches of films such as Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight andTerrence Malick’s Days of Heaven. My aim was to blend these influences into a sensorial, poeticdocumentary portrait.– Jamila Wignot - Director
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